Rev. Hiram Collins Haydn (December 11, 1831 – July, 31, 1913) was an American minister and the fifth President of Western Reserve University, now

Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a Private university, private research university in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was established in 1967 by a merger between Western Reserve University and the Case Institute of Technology. Case ...

Biography

Haydn was born in

Pompey, New York Pompey is a town in the southeast part of Onondaga County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 7,080. The town was named after the Roman general and political leader Pompey by a late 18th-century clerk interested in ...

, December 11, 1831. He graduated from

Amherst College Amherst College ( ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zepha ...

in 1856 and

Union Theological Seminary Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York (shortened to UTS or Union) is a Private college, private ecumenical liberal Christian seminary in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, affiliated with Columbia University since 1928. Presently, Co ...

in 1859. He was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church ( Old Stone Church) on

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from 1872–1880 and 1884–1902. While president at Western Reserve from 1897–1890, he most notably ended coeducation, instead creating a coordinate system solution, establishing the College for Women, later named Flora Stone Mather College. Wrote "The History of Presbyterianism in Cleveland," published in 1893 by Winn and Judson, and wrote much of "Annals of the First Presbyterian Church of Cleveland, 1820-1895," in 1895, also published by Winn and Judson. Haydn died in Cleveland on July 31, 1913, and was buried at

Lake View Cemetery Lake View Cemetery is a Private property, privately owned, Nonprofit organization, nonprofit Rural cemetery, garden cemetery located in the cities of Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Cleveland Heights, and East Cleveland, Ohio, East Cleveland ...

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