| Eliphaz Fay | |
| Order: | Fourth |
| President of Colby College | |
| Term Start: | 1841 |
| Term End: | 1843 |
| Predecessor: | Robert Everett Pattison |
| Successor: | David Newton Sheldon |
| Birth Date: | 27 April 1797 |
| Birth Place: | Marlborough, Massachusetts |
| Death Place: | Poughkeepsie, New York |
| Alma Mater: | Brown University |
Eliphaz Fay (April 27, 1797 - March 19, 1854) served as the fourth president of Colby College (then called the Waterville College) in Maine.[1]
Fay was born to Solomon Fay, and Suzannah Morse, a schoolteacher in Marlborough, Massachusetts.[2] Graduated from Brown University in 1821.[3] He married Mary Helen (Lee) on April 20, 1829. His children were Susan Mary, William Wirt, Henry Harrison, Caroline Louise.
Fay had a career as a lawyer. In 1832 he was the first principal of New Paltz Academy. From 1833-1834 he published The Independence, a newspaper in Poughkeepsie, New York, which "advocate(d) the cause of Anti-Masonry, literature, science, temperance, morality and religion."Editor: Eliphaz Fay, 1832-1834.[4]
Elected President of Colby College in August 1841, after a year when the college had no president for the prior year. The enrollment was 76.[5]