Hosea Quimby (also known asHosea Quinby) (1804–1878) was an AmericanFree Will Baptist pastor, author, and president of theParsonsfield Seminary in Maine andSmithville Seminary in Rhode Island.
Quimby was born to Moses and Dolly (Atkins) Quimby in 1804. He studied at theNew Hampton Institute andWolfborough Academy from 1824 to 1828 and then graduated fromColby College in 1832. He married Dorothea Burleigh of Sandwich in 1828. Quimby was ordained inSandwich, New Hampshire, in 1833. He served as the first principal of the Parsonsfield Seminary from 1832 to 1839, and then the Smithville Seminary from 1840 to 1854. He served as pastor inMeredith, New Hampshire, from 1839 to 1840, and from 1855 to 1857 toPittsfield in 1857. Quinby served as one of the founding trustees ofBates College in Maine. Quimby was pastor and principal of the Free Baptist Academy inLebanon, Maine, in 1861 to 1864 and Lake Village from 1864 to 1867. He retired from teaching in 1864 and was a chaplain ofNew Hampshire State Prison from 1869 to 1871. He was pastor inNottingham, Pittsfield, andMilton Mills from 1876 to 1878. Quimby died in Milton Mills in 1878. Quimby published several works, including a "Review of Butler's Letters," "Treatise on the Faith and Usages of the Free Baptist Denomination," "Prison Chaplaincy and Experiences, 1873" and "Christian Baptism."[1] Quimby's nephew,Ivory Quinby, was one of the earliest benefactors ofMonmouth College.[2]