biography
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Clarke, James Freeman
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1810–88)
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| biography:
| Protestant religious leader, born in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. He graduated from Harvard (1829) and became pastor of the Unitarian Church in Louisville, KY. He edited the Western Messenger from Louisville (1836–9), in which he published articles by, among others, Emerson and Hawthorne. He returned to Boston and founded the Unitarian Church of the Disciples (1841) and taught at Harvard Divinity School (1867–71). A supporter of temperance, the abolition of slavery, and women's suffrage, he wrote many books, including Ten Great Religions (1871). |
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