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- Horace_Holley_(minister) abstract "Horace Holley (February 13, 1781 – July 31, 1827) was a Unitarian minister and president of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.Born to a prominent New England family, Holley finished his formal secondary education by age ten. He began preparatory studies at age sixteen, and graduated from Yale University in 1799. After briefly studying law at a firm in New York, he returned to Yale to study theology under President Timothy Dwight. He earned a divinity degree in 1804, and began pastoring a Congregationalist church in Fairfield, Connecticut. After three years, he left Fairfield to pastor in Boston, Massachusetts. His religious views also became more liberal, and he converted to Unitarianism in 1809.In 1818, Holley was offered the presidency of the struggling Transylvania University. He accepted, and immediately began a series of changes that positioned the university among the nation's elite institutions. However, his theological views clashed with those of the Presbyterian Church, which had historically wielded great influence at Transylvania. Holley's sympathies for the Federalist Party also won him a number of enemies in the state. His opponents began to spread rumors regarding his personal life. Governor Joseph Desha also opposed Holley and persuaded the General Assembly to cut off the university's funding. In the face of such overwhelming issues, Holley resigned his post in 1827.Holley moved his family to New Orleans, Louisiana where he was offered the presidency of a planned new university. However, before the university could be opened, Holley contracted yellow fever while vacationing aboard a ship bound for New York, and died July 31, 1827.".
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