American editor and author, born in Boston, MA, on the 1st of January 1800; was apprenticed first to a morocco-dresser, then to brass-founder, and finally to a shoemaker. He became acquainted with the Rev. Hosea Ballou, who persuaded him to study theology, and in 1821 he became pastor of the Universalist Church at Milford, MA, and of that at Cambridgeport in 1822. He was a joint editor of the Universalist Magazine, and the founder of the Trumpet, a Boston Universalist paper, editing and managing it for thirty years. He was a member of the legislature from Cambridge repeatedly, and was president of the local bank, as well as of the Vermont and Massachusetts railway, for many years. He received the degree of D.D. from Tufts College in 1858. Among his most important works were The Modern History of Universalism (1830; new ed., 1860); Notes and Illustrations of the Parables (1832); Songs of Zion (1836); Commentary on the Revelation of St. John (1838); and a Commentary on the Book of Daniel (1840). He died at Cambridge, MA, on the 21st of March 1861.
