James Luce Kingsley

Born in Windham, Connecticut, Kingsley was educated at Williams and Yale, where he was graduated in 1799.

He afterward taught for two years, first in Wethersfield, Connecticut and then in Windham, and in 1801 became a tutor at Yale.

In 1805 he was appointed to the newly established professorship of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin in there.

Kingsley was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1825.

As a writer of English, Yale president Timothy Dwight called him the “American Addison”; and Yale president Woolsey said of him, “I doubt if any American scholar has ever surpassed him in Latin style.” He published a discourse on the 200th anniversary of the founding of New Haven, April 25, 1838; editions of Tacitus (Philadelphia), and Cicero, De Oratore (New York); and was the author of a history of Yale college in the American Quarterly Register (1835); a life of Ezra Stiles, president of Yale college, in Sparks's series “American Biography.”