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Alonzo Ames Miner

Alonzo Ames Miner was a Universalist minister. He was the second president of Tufts University.

Origins
Born in Lempster, New Hampshire, he was the second of five children and only son of Benajah Ames and Amanda (Carey) Miner. His father was a descendant of the colonist Thomas Miner. He married Maria S. Perley in August 1836. ==Career==
Career
He taught school in rural Vermont and New Hampshire before being ordained a Universalist minister in 1839. He served as pastor to churches in Methuen, Lowell, and Boston, Massachusetts. Miner supported many moral and civic causes, at various times serving on the Board of Trustees at Tufts College, the Board of Overseers at Harvard (appointed 1863), ==References==
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