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Notable American Unitarians 1740-1900
By Herbert F. Vetter
Harvard Square Library, 2007
The notable Americans in this first of two volumes, NOTABLE AMERICAN
UNITARIANS 1740-1900, edited by Herbert Vetter, founder of the Cambridge Forum were notable indeed. Nineteenth century intellectual history can culture cannot be understood apart from the Unitarians. Here are familiar names such as Emerson and Thoreau from the flowering of New England. He includes the Melville and Hawthorne who are less commonly remembered as being of the Unitarian household of faith. Bullfinch, architect of the capitol, and the sculptor of patriotism Daniel Chester French are found here. Sen. Justin Morrill’s College Land Bill shaped American education as surely as did the multiple Unitarian Harvard Presidents. We cannot forget either that a Unitarian founded Annapolis, the Naval Academy. Robert Gould Shaw and others gave their lives in the Civil War. His sister spent the years afterward contributing to establishing schools for black children, as an urban reformer, and an advocate for the Anti-Imperialists. Unitarians excelled in law and science as they did in literature and art. Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., the great dissenter, and Percival Lowell, astronomer are included. Vetter does not neglect remarkable American women as well as men. Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony were formidable feminists ahead of their time. Maria Mitchell, pioneer astronomer, and Elizabeth Peabody, educator, are included along with the more familiar Louisa May Alcott, and Julia Ward Howe, author of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” He documents the continuing contribution of 19th century Unitarians through public television and radio by the Lowell Institute. Vetter’s notables are still names that live in the American story
Wesley V. Hromatko, D.Min.
By Herbert F. Vetter
Harvard Square Library, 2007
The notable Americans in this first of two volumes, NOTABLE AMERICANUNITARIANS 1740-1900, edited by Herbert Vetter, founder of the Cambridge Forum were notable indeed. Nineteenth century intellectual history can culture cannot be understood apart from the Unitarians. Here are familiar names such as Emerson and Thoreau from the flowering of New England. He includes the Melville and Hawthorne who are less commonly remembered as being of the Unitarian household of faith. Bullfinch, architect of the capitol, and the sculptor of patriotism Daniel Chester French are found here. Sen. Justin Morrill’s College Land Bill shaped American education as surely as did the multiple Unitarian Harvard Presidents. We cannot forget either that a Unitarian founded Annapolis, the Naval Academy. Robert Gould Shaw and others gave their lives in the Civil War. His sister spent the years afterward contributing to establishing schools for black children, as an urban reformer, and an advocate for the Anti-Imperialists. Unitarians excelled in law and science as they did in literature and art. Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., the great dissenter, and Percival Lowell, astronomer are included. Vetter does not neglect remarkable American women as well as men. Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony were formidable feminists ahead of their time. Maria Mitchell, pioneer astronomer, and Elizabeth Peabody, educator, are included along with the more familiar Louisa May Alcott, and Julia Ward Howe, author of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” He documents the continuing contribution of 19th century Unitarians through public television and radio by the Lowell Institute. Vetter’s notables are still names that live in the American story
Wesley V. Hromatko, D.Min.
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