American philanthropist; born in Hampton Falls, NH, on the 15th of December 1831. He graduated at Harvard; became secretary of the Massachusetts and Kansas Committee in 1856; was an active member of the Massachusetts State Board of Charities, secretary of the American Social Science Association and of the Concord Summer School of Philosophy; and brought about many reforms in Massachusetts charitable, penal and other public institutions. He wrote Life of Thoreau (1882); Life and Letters of John Brown (1885); Sonnets and Canzonets (1882).
