The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bancroft, Cecil Franklin Patch

BANCROFT, Cecil Franklin Patch, educator, was born at New Ipswich, N. H., Nov. 25, 1839. He was graduated at Dartmouth college in 1860, and at the Andover theological seminary in 1867, and continued his studies in Germany. He was principal of Appleton academy, Mt. Vernon, N. H., 1860-’64: of a school in Tennessee, 1867-'72, and of Phillips Andover academy from 1873. He was married in May, 1869, to Fanny A., daughter of Capt. Timothy and Fanny March Kittredge of Mt. Vernon, N. H. She died, March 29, 1898. He received the degree of Ph. D., from the University of the State of New York in 1874, Litt. D., from Williams in 1874, and LL. D., from Yale in 1892. He was president of the Dartmouth alumni and of the Headmasters' association. He died at Andover, Mass., Oct. 4, 1901.