Person Record
Metadata
Name |
Hewitt, Arthur Wentworth |
Date Born |
07/22/1883 |
Birthplace |
Riverton, Vermont |
Deceased |
11/06/1971 |
Place of Death |
Berlin, Vermont |
Father |
Hewitt, Arthur Lee |
Spouse |
Hewitt, Nina Battles |
Occupation |
Chairman, Vermont Board of Education Methodist Minister |
Titles & Honors |
Honorary Doctor of Divinity from Middlebury College Honorary Doctor of Literature from Norwich University Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from UVM President of Poetry Society Poet Laureate of Vermont |
Notes |
Arthur W. Hewitt was born in Riverton, Vermont, June 22, 1883. He attended Riverton schools and was a graduate of Northfield High School and Montpelier Seminary. On September 18, 1907 he married Nina Battles of Wilder. Dr. Hewitt's pastoral life began in 1908 in Plainfield, Vermont, where he served as a minister of the Methodist Church until 1933. He served in Moretown, Vermont from 1933-35, and in Northfield and Northfield Falls until 1956. Dr. Hewitt was also active in education. He was superintendent of schools in Glover, 1905-1906, and in Plainfield, 1910-1911. He was, for a time, the head of Montpelier Seminary, organized Vermont Junior College, and served as its president from 1923 to 1935. During the years 1912-1917, as Plainfield's representative in the Vermont General Assembly, he was chairman of the House Committee on Education. From 1923 to 1935 he was chairman of the Vermont Board of Education. Hewitt was also a poet. He published five collections of poetry, including, Harp of the North (1916) and The Mountain Troubaor (1962. He also wrote a biography entitled The Old Brick Manse (1965). he was the head of the Poetry Society of Vermont (P.S.O.V.) for eight years, and in August of 1971 he was recommended by the state legislature to succeed Robert Frost as Poet Laureat of Vermont. He died November 6, 1971 in Berlin, Vermont. copy of newspaper artical with further information in object folder for 2007.5 See Arthur Wentworth Hewitt Collection at UVM Library Special Collections for personal papers |
