American Unitarian preacher and author; born at Comstock, MI, on the 23rd of April 1848; ordained at Meadville Theological School in 1872; held pastoral charges in Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana and Massachusetts. He has contributed many articles to The Critic and The Independent, and published several books, among which were Emerson: His Life, Writings and Philosophy (1881); George Eliot: A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy (1883); A Guidebook to the Works of Robert Browning (1891). He also edited The Poets of Transcendentalism (1903).
