Samuel Longfellow (1819–1892)

American clergyman, brother of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; born at Portland, ME, on the 18th of June 1819. In 1846 he graduated at the Harvard Divinity School, and in 1848 was called to a church at Fall River. In 1853 he became pastor of a Unitarian church in Brooklyn, NY, but resigned in 1860, continuing to preach without pastoral charge until 1878, when he became minister of a church in Germantown, PA. He published, among other works, A Book of Hymns and Tunes (1859); Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1886); Final Memorials, etc. (1887); Thalatta: A Book for the Seaside; and Lectures, Essays and Sermons of Samuel Johnson (1883). He died in Portland on the 3rd of October 1892.