Hale, Edward Everett

S.T.D. (Harvard University, Cambridge, Ma ., 1879), Unitarian; b. in Boston, Ma ., April 3, 1822; educated at the Boston Latin School, and at Harvard College, Cambridge, Ma ., where he graduated in 1839; studied theology privately; was pastor at Worcester from 1846 to 1856, and since that time has been pastor of the South Congregational (Unitarian) Church, Boston. He was chairman of the National Unitarian Council of American Churches, 1882-84; and since 1881 president of the Suffolk Conference of Unitarian Churches. He edited The Christian Examiner, the organ of his denomination, 1857-63; Old and New, a semi theological magazine, 1870-75; and since 1886, Lend a Hand. Of his many volumes may be mentioned, Kansas and Nebraska, Boston, 1856 Ten Times One is Ten, 1870; What Career? 1878; four volumes of sermons, 1879-81. He was one of the writers of Bryant and Gay's History of the United States, New York, 1876-80.