HOVEY, AMOS ARNOLD (1883-1950)

HOVEY, AMOS ARNOLD, native son; Baptist minister and scholar; b. Ludlow, 10 Aug 1883, s/o Stephen Hovey and Emma Price; m. 1915, Viola Beatrice Weaver, sister of G. Stanley Weaver; d. 19 Aug 1950.

Amos A. Hovey was educated at Horton Academy and the universities of Acadia (BA 1914), Colgate (BD 1918), and Chicago (MA 1923, PhD 1930). In the summer of 1910 he was as a student assistant to the Rev. Henry T. Cousins. In the summers between 1914 and 1917 he was a student home mission pastor on the Southwest Miramichi and Grand Manan Island. From 1917 to 1920 he ministered in New York state and Ontario, and for the next six years he taught in various colleges, mostly in the United States. In 1926 he was appointed to the faculty at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and for the last eight years of his life he was head of the department of history and government at Bates.

Hovey would appear to have been the first professional historian born on the Miramichi.