American theologian, born in Sherburne, MA, on the 1st of April 1764; graduated at Harvard (1785); pastor at Hingham, MA (1787–1805); Hollis professor of divinity, Harvard (1805–40); in charge of the Harvard Divinity School (1826–45). With others, was the founder of Unitarian orthodoxy in New England. He published Letters to Trinitarians and Calvinists (1820); Answer to Dr. Wood’s Reply (1822); Postscript to an Answer (1823); An Inquiry into the Foundation, Evidences and Truths of Religion (2 vols., 1842); and, also, single sermons. He died at Cambridge, MA, July 12, 1845.—His son, Henry, a clergyman, was born in Hingham, MA, April 21, 1794, and graduated at Harvard in 1812. In 1817 he was ordained pastor of the Second Church (Unitarian), Boston, and took an active part in organizing the Unitarian body, editing its organ, the Christian Disciple, changed afterward to the Christian Examiner. He visited Europe in 1829, and in 1830 was appointed Parkham professor of pulpit eloquence in the Divinity School of Harvard University, which chair he resigned in 1842. He published Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching (1824); On the Formation of Christian Character (1831); The Life of the Saviour (1832); Scenes and Characters Illustrating Christian Truth (2 vols., 1837); and miscellaneous poems and single sermons. He died at Framingham, MA, September 22, 1843. (See also Literary Criticism.)—The second Henry’s son, John Fothergill Waterhouse, a clergyman, was born in Boston, August 31, 1818. He graduated at Harvard in 1838, and at the Divinity School in 1842; pastor of the Unitarian Society at Fall River, and at Cambridgeport, MA; in 1864, at Baltimore, MD; in 1872 of the Arlington Street Church, Boston; and afterward at Swampscott, MA. He published The Silent Pastor (1848); Home Life: What It Is, and What It Needs (1873); and other works. He died in Milton, MA, February 26, 1881.—Another son of the second Henry, William Robert, an architect, was born at Cambridge, MA, May 27, 1832; graduated at Harvard, and at the Lawrence Scientific School in 1856; professor of architecture in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1865–81); and in 1881 was elected to a similar professorship in the School of Mines of Columbia College, New York. He published Modern Perspective: A Treatise on Plane and Curvilinear Perspective (1883).—John, a brother of the second Henry, a physician, was born in Hingham, MA, December 19, 1795; graduated at Harvard in 1813 and in medicine in 1816; professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the medical department of Harvard (1832–58). He published Hints to Young Men (1850); Philosophy of Natural History (1860); and other works. He died in Boston, April 29, 1864.—William, another brother of the second Henry, an author, was born in Hingham, MA, August 3, 1797; graduated at Harvard in 1816, and at the Divinity School in 1819; pastor of the First Congregational Church, New York (1821—36); preached at Brookline, MA (1836–37); and at Waltham (1837–38); editor Christian Examiner (1839—44); pastor at West Cambridge (1844–45); resigned on account of failing health. He published Letters from Palmyra (2 vols., 1837); Probus (2 vols., 1838); Julian; or, Scenes in Judea (2 vols., 1841); Sketches of European Capitals (1851); Lectures on the Works and Genius of Washington Allston (1852); Life of Nathaniel Bacon (1848); and other works. He died at Cambridge, MA, February 19, 1852.—The first Henry’s nephew, Ashur, a jurist, was born in Sherburne, MA, February 10, 1782; graduated at Harvard in 1804; admitted to the Boston bar in 1816; secretary of the state of Maine in 1820, and judge of the United States district court of Maine (1822–66). He contributed to Bouvier’s Law Dictionary, and published Reports of Cases, United States District Court of Maine (1839). He died in Portland, ME, September 10, 1873.
