biography
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Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
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| male
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| lived:
| (1822–95)
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| biography:
| Religious leader and writer, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He graduated from Harvard (1843), studied divinity there and was pastor of North Church, Salem, MA for eight years before leaving in a dispute over his anti-slavery activities. In 1859 he became pastor of the Third Congregational Unitarian Society in New York City. A theological liberal, he founded the Boston Free Religious Association (1867) and headed it for 11 years. He published a biography of Theodore Parker, a study of New England transcendentalism, and a summary of his own religious thought, The Religion of Humanity (1876). He retired from the ministry in 1879 and was in poor health for the rest of his life. |
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