Sidney Willard

Sidney Willard (September 19, 1780 – December 6, 1856) was an American academic and politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, on the Massachusetts Governor's Council and as the second Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[2]

Sidney Willard
Major Sidney Willard
Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
In office April 1848 – April 1851
Preceded by	James D. Green
Succeeded by	George Stevens
Personal details
Born	September 19, 1780 Beverly, Massachusetts[1]
Died	December 6, 1856 (aged 76)[1] Cambridge, Massachusetts[1]
Spouse(s)	Elizabeth Ann Andrews, m. December 28, 1815, d. September 17, 1817.[1] Hannah S. Heard, m. January 27, 1819, d. 1821.[1]
Alma mater	Harvard College
Occupation	Educator;[1] Politician[2]

Willard was the Librarian of Harvard from 1800 to 1805.^[1] From 1807 to 1831^[1] he was the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages at Harvard College.^[2] Willard was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1808.^[3]

Willard was the son of Harvard president Joseph Willard and Mary (Sheafe) Willard.^[1][2]

Willard was a member of the Anthology Club, and a founder of The Literary Miscellany, established and edited the American Monthly Review (4 vols., 1832/3), was editor of The Christian Register, contributed to numerous periodicals, and published a Hebrew Grammar (Cambridge, 1817), and Memoirs of Youth and Manhood (2 vols., 1855).^[4]

His son in law, John Bartlett, was an American writer and publisher whose best known work, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, has been continually revised and reissued for a century after his death.