Conway, Moncure Daniel

Liberal, b. in Stafford County, Va., March 17, 1832; graduated at Dick in son College, Penn., 1849; studied law, then entered the Baltimore (M.E.) Conference, 1851; became a Unitarian; graduated at Harvard Divinity School, 1854; was pastor in Washington, D.C., 1854-56; Cincinnati, O., 1857-62; London, Eng., 1863-84. He is the author of Tracts for To-day, Cincinnati, 1858; The Rejected Stone, Boston, 1861; The Golden Hour, 1862; Testimonies concerning Slavery, London, 1864, 2d ed. 1865; The Sacred Anthology, 1870, 5th ed. 1877; The Earthward Pilgrimage, 1870, 2d ed. 1877; Republican Superstitions, 1872; Christianity, 1876; Idols and Ideals (with e ay on Christianity), 1877, 2d ed. 1880; Demonoloqy and Devil Lore, 1878, 2 vols.; A Necklace of Stories, 1880; The Wandering Jew, 1881; Thomas Carlyle, 1882; Emerson at Home and Abroad, 1882; Travels in South Kensington, 1882; Farewell Discourses, 1884.