American Unitarian minister and author, born in Norridgewock, ME, on the 10th of June 1841. He graduated at the Bangor Theological Seminary in 1864, and for nine years was in the Congregational ministry, being a home missionary at San Mateo and Grass Valley, CA, until 1867, and holding pastorates at Framingham, MA (1867–1869), and Hannibal, MO (1869–1873). He then became a Unitarian, and was pastor of the Third Unitarian Church of Chicago in 1873–1874, of the Church of the Unity in Boston in 1874–1896, and of the Church of the Messiah in New York City in 1896–1906. He died in Boston, MA, on the 22nd of May 1918.
He wrote many books, including Christianity, the Science of Manhood (1873), The Religion of Evolution (1876), The Morals of Evolution (1880), The Religious Life (1885), My Creed (1887), The Evolution of Christianity (1892), Our Unitarian Gospel (1898), The Passing and the Permanent in Religion (1901), Life Beyond Death (1901), Can Telepathy Explain? (1902), Life’s Dark Problems (1905), and, besides other volumes in verse, America to England (1905). See also “Spiritualism,” “The Shadow,” “My Birth,” “The Pescadero Pebbles” and Bluffton.
