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A noted Unitarian clergyman; born in Norridgewock, Me., June 10, 1841. He graduated at the Theological Seminary at Bangor, 1864; went to California as a Congregational home missionary, and preached at San Mateo and at Grass Valley. He removed to Framingham, Mass.; thence was called to Indianapolis, and afterwards to Hannibal, Mo. He accepted a call to the Third Unitarian Church in Chicago in 1873, and after a year there was installed pastor of the Church of the Unity, Boston, where he remained for twenty-two years. He is now in the Church of the Messiah, New York, in association with Dr. Robert Collyer. In his very active career he has published over thirty books on religious, social, and moral questions, among which may be mentioned: "The Religion of Evolution" (1876); "Social Problems" (1886); "My Creed" (1887); "Jesus and Modern Life" (1893); "A Man" (1895); "Religion for To-day" (1897). He has also published "Bluffton: A Story of To-day" (1878); "Poems", and "Life's Dark Problems".