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Meigs, Josiah

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Meigs, Josiah (1757-1822)

US lawyer, educator, and public official. Admitted to the bar in 1783, he practised law in Bermuda for several years before becoming professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Yale University in 1794. He was the president of the University of Georgia (1801-10), and was then appointed surveyor general of the USA in 1812. He was a founder of the Columbian Institute, later renamed George Washington University.

Meigs was born in Middletown, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale University in 1778, then returned to Yale as a tutor (1781-84), meanwhile helping to launch and edit the New Haven Gazette (1784-88), which published the ‘Hartford Wits’.



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