1723
Increase Mather, American minister and author (born 1639)
Increase Mather, American minister and author (born 1639)
Increase Mather, American minister and author (born 1639)
Increase Mather
Puritan minister, academic and activist (1639–1723)
- Died
- 1723
Increase Mather was a New England Puritan clergyman who served as the sixth president of Harvard College from 1685 to 1701. During his tenure, which coincided with the notorious Salem witch trials, he was influential in the administration of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.