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American academic and politician
Sidney Willard
Major Sidney Willard
Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
In office
April 1848 – April 1851
Preceded byJames D. Green
Succeeded byGeorge Stevens
Personal details
BornSeptember 19, 1780
Beverly, Massachusetts
DiedDecember 6, 1856 (aged 76)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Spouse(s)Elizabeth Ann Andrews, m. December 28, 1815, d. September 17, 1817.
Hannah S. Heard, m. January 27, 1819, d. 1821.
Alma materHarvard College
OccupationEducator; Politician

Sidney Willard (September 19, 1780 – December 6, 1856) was an American academic and politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, on the Massachusetts Governor's Council and as the second Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Willard was the Librarian of Harvard from 1800 to 1805. From 1807 to 1831 he was the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages at Harvard College. Willard was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1808.

Willard was the son of Harvard president Joseph Willard and Mary (Sheafe) Willard.

Willard was a member of the Anthology Club, and a founder of The Literary Miscellany, established and edited the American Monthly Review (4 vols., 1832/3), was editor of The Christian Register, contributed to numerous periodicals, and published a Hebrew Grammar (Cambridge, 1817), and Memoirs of Youth and Manhood (2 vols., 1855).

His son in law, John Bartlett, was an American writer and publisher whose best known work, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, has been continually revised and reissued for a century after his death.

References

  1. ^ Winsor, Justin (1897), Bibliographical Contributions. No. 52, Cambridge, MA: The Library of Harvard University, p. 33
  2. ^ Palmer, Joseph (1864), Necrology of Alumni of Harvard College, 1851-52 to 1862-63, Boston, MA: Joseph Palmer; Printed by JOHN WILSON AND SON, p. 113
  3. "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter W" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
  4. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1889). "Willard, Simon, settler" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
Political offices
Preceded byJames D. Green Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
April 1848 – April 1851 		Succeeded byGeorge Stevens


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