Complex sentence: He earned an M.A. degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in 1836 and was awarded an honorary doctorate of divinity (D.D.) from the same institution in 1847.
Split into simpler sentences: He earned an M.A. degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in 1836. Richey was awarded an honorary doctorate (D.D.) from the same institution in 1847.