Edward Porter Humphrey
| Edward Porter Humphrey | |
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| Born |
January 28, 1809 Fairfield, Connecticut |
| Died | December 9, 1886 |
| Burial place | Cave Hill Cemetery |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Amherst |
| Occupation | Presbyterian minister, orator, writer, and Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly |
| Spouse(s) | Catherine Cornelia Prather Martha Pope |
| Children |
Edward William Cornelius Humphrey Alexander Pope Humphrey |
| Parent(s) |
Heman Humphrey Sophia Porter |
Edward Porter Humphrey (1809–1886) was a Presbyterian minister, orator, writer, and moderator of the national Presbyterian General Assembly. He was a planner and co-founder of Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky. He gave the dedicatory address on July 25, 1848 for Cave Hill, an innovative garden cemetery which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Humphrey was the son of Congregationalist minister and second president of Amherst College Heman Humphrey and his wife Sophia Porter (1785–1868), daughter of Noah Porter. He was born in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts or in Fairfield, Connecticut. The documentary evidence in Ancestry.com for Fairfield, Connecticut appears to be strongest and is based on census records. His first wife was Catherine Cornelia Prather, daughter of Thomas Prather and Matilda Martha Fontaine.
He and Catherine Cornelia were married March 3, 1841. She bore him one son, Edward William Cornelius Humphrey, who became a legal expert and representative to the national Presbyterian General Assembly. Edward and Catherine also had one young daughter who died as an infant shortly after Catherine died during childbirth on September 28, 1844. As a child, Catherine Cornelia Prather's portrait was painted by the American portrait painter Matthew Harris Jouett.
Her portrait was retrieved from Louisville's Speed Museum collection to become part of the private collection of her descendant Eleanor Belknap Humphrey, sister of William Burke Belknap the younger, and daughter of William Richardson Belknap. Her portrait, known as "The Little Grandmother" remains in a Humphrey family collection, is registered with the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, and in the 1970s was on temporary loan to Transylvania College for an exhibition of Kentucky portraits. The Jouett portrait of Catherine Cornelia Prather Humphrey as a child was also used as an illustration in the book Kentucky Heyday by British Army officer Brigadier General Arnold Nugent Strode Strode-Jackson.
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