American clergyman and educator, born in Burlington, MA, on the 16th of August 1794. He graduated at Harvard in 1814; was pastor of the Unitarian church in Charlestown, MA, twenty-one years; became professor of moral and intellectual philosophy in Harvard in 1839, and its president in 1853, which office he held till his resignation in 1860. He left his library and $15,000 to Harvard. He published numerous sermons, lectures and addresses, including lectures on Natural Religion and The Philosophy of Religion. Among his writings are a Memoir of Josiah Quincy (1867); and Discourses (1876). He also edited a number of college textbooks. He died in Cambridge, MA, on the 23rd of December 1874.
