Long, Clement, 1806-1861

Biography

Clement Long was born on 1 December 1806 in Hopkinton, New Hampshire. He attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and graduated with the BA degree in 1828.After teaching at a school in Randolph, Vermont for three years, Long studied at Andover Theological Seminary in Massachusetts during 1831–33 but did not graduate. Instead, he left Andover to accept a position as a tutor at Western Reserve College in Hudson. Long went to Dartmouth as a visiting lecturer on intellectual philosophy and political economy during 1851–52. In 1854, he was offered the professorship of Intellectual Philosophy and Political Economy by President Nathan Lord.