biography
pronunciation:
[baloo]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1803–90)
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| biography:
| Universalist clergyman and reformer, born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, USA. A Universalist minister who preached throughout Massachusetts (1823–41), he was founder of the Hopedale Community, one of the first of such American Utopian enterprises, in Milford, MA (1841–68). He preached non-resistance throughout the Civil War, then saw his community turned into an industrial centre while remaining as pastor of Hopedale Parish (through 1880). Although his efforts at establishing a utopian community failed, he exerted considerable influence on Unitarian and Universalist thought during his almost 60 years as a clergyman. |
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