American Unitarian minister, born in Sheffield, MA, on the 28th of March 1794; died there on the 21st of March 1882. He graduated from Williams College in 1814, and from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1819. He became a Unitarian, and for two years was the assistant of Dr. Channing in Boston. He was successively pastor at New Bedford, in New York City at the Church of the Messiah, in Albany, in Washington. In 1858–62 he was at Boston at the church of the “New South Society.” In 1862 he retired to his farm, where his last years were spent, visiting Europe twice on account of his health. He delivered two courses of lectures, on The Problem of Human Life and Destiny and Education of the Human Race, and wrote polemical sermons and addresses. See also “Talks with Thackeray”; Literary Criticism.
