Unitarian minister and an author, born at Freeport, ME, on the 30th of April 1813. He graduated at Bowdoin College in 1832, and at Cambridge Divinity School in 1835. Two years later he was made assistant pastor of the West Church (Unitarian) of Boston, where he became a member of the famous Transcendental Club. Among his several works are Discourses on the Christian Spirit and Life; Pictures of Europe; Radical Problems; and The Rising Faith. His contributions to periodical literature had a considerable religious effect.