Increase Mather was a New England Puritan clergyman in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and president of Harvard College for twenty years. He was influential in the administration of the colony during a time that coincided with the notorious Salem... Wikipedia
Born: June 21, 1639, Dorchester, Boston, MA
Died: August 23, 1723 (age 84 years), Boston, MA
Education: Harvard University, Harvard College, and Trinity College Dublin
Spouse: Ann Cotton (m. 1715) and Maria Cotton (m. 1662)
Children: Cotton Mather, Samuel Mather, Elizabeth Mather, and more
Parents: Richard Mather and Kathrine Holt Mather