Herman Daggett

Herman Daggett (September 11, 1766 – May 19, 1832) was an American Presbyterian minister and early animal rights writer.

Biography

Daggett was born on September 11, 1766, at Walpole, Massachusetts.Sprague, William B. (1859). Annals of the American Pulpit, Volume 2. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers. pp. 291–294Pelletreau, William S. (1903). History of Long Island: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume 2. New York: The Lewis Publishing Company. p. 304 He was the son of physician Ebenezer Daggett, brother of Naphtali Daggett. He moved to Wrentham as a boy. Daggett attended Brown University in 1784 and graduated in 1788. He studied theology under Nathanael Emmons.Blake, Mortimer. (1853). A Centurial History of the Mendon Association of Congregational. Boston: Sewall Harding. pp. 239–240 Daggett became a licensed Congregational preacher in 1789.Historical Catalogue of Brown University. (1895). Press of P. S. Remington & Co. p. 33 He preached at Long Island and Southampton. He joined the pastoral office on April 12, 1792. He married Sarah, daughter of Colonel Mathewson on September 3, 1792. He resigned from Southampton and joined the pastoral care of the West Hampton church. He held this position from 1797 to 1801. He became pastor of the church at Fire Place and Middle Island in Brookhaven until 1807. After this he preached at New Canaan, Connecticut and North Salem, New York. Daggett was President (1818–1824) of the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut. Daggett died on May 19, 1832.

Animal rights

On September 7, 1791, Daggett gave a lecture at Providence College (now Brown University) entitled "The Rights of Animals: An Oration" which was one of the earliest calls for animal protection in the United States.Pelletreau, William S. (1903). History of Long Island: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume 2. New York: The Lewis Publishing Company. p. 512Iacobbo, Karen; Iacobbo, Michael. (2004). Vegetarian America: A History. Praeger Publishing. p. 5-6. Phelps, Norm. (2007). The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA. Lantern Books. pp. 87–88. The lecture was his master's thesis and was printed in 1792 by David Frothingham. It has been described as "the first known American treatise on animal rights".Linzey, Andrew; Clarke, Paul Barry. (2004). Animal Rights: A Historical Anthology. Columbia University Press. p. 188. It was re-printed by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1926.Linzey, Andrew. (2004). Animal Rights: A Historical Anthology. Columbia University Press. p. 126.

Selected publications

The Rights of Animals (1792) An Abridgement of the Writings of Lewis Cornaro: A Nobleman of Venice on Health and Long Life (1824) The American Reader (1841)

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