title: Eliphaz Fay
text: # Eliphaz Fay
  
  Eliphaz Fay (April 27, 1797 – March 19, 1854) served as the fourth president of Colby College (then called the Waterville College) in Maine.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  Fay was born to Solomon Fay, and Suzannah Morse, a schoolteacher in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Graduated from Brown University in 1821. He married Mary Helen (Lee) on April 20, 1829. His children were Susan Mary, William Wirt, Henry Harrison, Caroline Louise.
  
  ## Work
  
  Fay had a career as a lawyer. In 1832 he was the first principal of New Paltz Academy. From 1833-1834 he published The Independence, a newspaper in Poughkeepsie, New York, which "advocate(d) the cause of Anti-Masonry, literature, science, temperance, morality and religion." Editor: Eliphaz Fay, 1832-1834.
  
  Elected President of Colby College in August 1841, after a year when the college had no president for the prior year. The enrollment was 76.
  
  