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An American reformer, journalist, and author; born in South Canaan, Conn., Feb. 12, 1804; died in Medford, Mass., Nov. 21, 1885. He graduated at Yale, 1826; taught school, and was professor of mathematics in Western Reserve College, 1829-33. He was identified with the Anti-Slavery movement in 1833; was editor of the newspapers The Emancipator, and Human Rights, and the quarterly Anti-Slavery Magazine. He published several works on life insurance, "Savings Banks Life Insurance" (1872), "The Politics and Mysteries of Life Insurance" (1873), etc.; and was Insurance Commissioner of Massachusetts. He wrote an introduction to Whittier's poems (1844); and published a translation in verse of "La Fontaine's Fables" (1859.)