Henry Sanborn Noyes was a president of Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

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Biography

Noyes was born in Vermont

Vermont

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...

. He graduated from Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and...

 in 1848, 9 years after Clark T. Hinman

Clark T. Hinman

Clark Titus Hinman was the first president of Northwestern University. Hinman was born in Delaware County, New York into a Methodist family. He attended Wesleyan University, and after graduation served as an instructor at a seminary in Newbury, Vermont...

, the first president of Northwestern. After Hinman's departure from Newbury Seminary in Vermont in 1853, Noyes became president.

Noyes was one of the two original faculty members of the University when it opened in 1855 and served as professor of mathematics. Hinman, the first elected president of the University, died in 1854, and Noyes served as interim president until the election of Randolph S. Foster in 1856. Noyes also served as interim president from 1860 to 1867.