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The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IIV
PACKARD, Alpheus Spring, educator, was born in Chelmsford, Mass., Dec. 23, 1798; son of the Rev. Hezekiah (1761-1849) and Mary (Spring) Packard; grandson of Jacob and Dorothy (Perkins) Packard, and of the Rev. Alpheus and Sarah (Frost) Spring, and a descendant of Samuel Packard, who emigrated from Windham, Norfolk county, England, to America in the Diligence in 1638, with his wife and child, and settled first in Hingham and then in West Bridgewater, Mass. Alpheus removed to Wiscasset, Maine, with his parents, in 1802; was prepared for college at Phillips' academy, Exeter, N.H., and was graduated at Bowdoin, A.B., 1816, A.M., 1819. He taught school in Gorham, Wiscasset and Bucksport, and was the principal of Hallowell Academy, Maine, 1816-19; was at Bowdoin as tutor, 1819-24; professor of ancient languages and classical literature, 1824-65, of rhetoric and oratory, 1842-45, and of natural and revealed religion, 1864-84. He was also librarian of Bowdoin, 1869-81, and acting president, 1883-84. He was first married in 1827 to Frances E., daughter of Jesse Appleton, president of Bowdoin, and secondly in 1844 to Mrs. C. W. McLellan of Portland, Me. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry, May 16, 1850, and was a frequent preacher at the college and the neighboring churches. He was an early member of the Maine Historical society, and its librarian and cabinet keeper for forty-five years. He also contributed to and jointly edited several volumes of its Collections, and was a honorary member of the Royal Historical society of London, of the New York Historical society, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the degree of D.D. from Bowdoin in 1860. He contributed to the North American Review, the Bibliotheca Sacra, and to Annals of the American Pulpit. He edited: History of Bowdoin, with Biographical Sketches (1882); Works of the Rev. Jesse Appleton with a Memoir (2 vols., 1836-37); Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates with English notes (1839), and published several addresses. See "Memorial: Alpheus S. Packard," by George T. Little (1886). He died at Squirrel Island, Maine, July 13, 1884.
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