Author; born in
Boston, Mass., June 28, 1818; graduated at Harvard College in 1837, and at Harvard Divinity School; and became pastor of a Unitarian church in
Watertown in 1843, and again in 1859.
In 1870 he retired to devote himself to literature.
He published
Aesthetic prose, a translation of
Schiller's philosophical and aesthetic essays, and
Life and correspondence of Theodore Parker.
He was attached to the transcendental school of philosophy, and was an earnest abolitionist and advocate of woman's rights.
He died in
Boston, Mass. March 9, 1879.
