biography
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| lived:
| (1835–1922)
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| biography:
| Congregational clergyman and editor, born in Roxbury (now part of Boston), Massachusetts, USA. He studied at New York University and joined a law firm before turning to the ministry, becoming ordained in 1860. At the end of the Civil War, he went to New York City where, in addition to a parish, he worked with the American Union Commission for more sympathetic reconstruction policies in the South. He became editor of a new periodical, The Illustrated Christian Weekly (1870–6), then joined Henry Ward Beecher at the Christian Union, replacing him as editor in 1881. He retired in 1899 to devote his final years to editing, writing, and guest preaching and speaking. He was noted for the intelligence, balance, and tolerance that he combined with traditional Christian teachings. |
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