Hamlin

Cyrus, an American mi ionary; born in Water ford, Me., Jan. 5, 1811; was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1834 and at Bangor Theological Seminary in 1837; went to Turkey in the following year. From 1860 to 1876 he was president of Robert College, which he had founded after a long conflict with the Turkish government. President Hamlin belonged to the group of American educators in the Levant whose influence did much in molding the character of modern Bulgarian leaders, and producing autonomy for Bulgaria. He returned to the United States and _became a profe or in the Theological Seminary in Bangor; was president of Middle bury College, Vt., in 1880-1883, when he removed to Lexington, Ma . He died Aug. 8, 1900.