biography
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| lived:
| (1824–64)
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| biography:
| Unitarian minister and lecturer, born in New York City, New York, USA. He worked as a teacher, principal, and book-keeper to support his mother and siblings. Largely self-taught, he became a Unitarian minister in Boston (1846), and went to San Francisco (1860), where his orations helped to keep California in the Union during the Civil War. He died of diphtheria. California named two mountain peaks for him, and his statue was placed in the US Capitol. |
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