Noah Porter

Biography

Noah Porter was a devoted educator whose wide-ranging curiosity guided his long tenure at Yale College. He tended to the lives of students and colleagues alike with an unshakable dedication to thoughtful instruction, helping to shape the institution’s mission in the rapidly changing years of the nineteenth century.

He approached scholarship as a communal commitment, publishing works that reflected his faith in moral philosophy and the human sciences, and he remained a steady presence in the New Haven community, resting now among the dignified stones of Grove Street Cemetery.