Harvard Square Library exists solely on the basis of donations. If you have benefitted from any of our materials, and/or if making Unitarian Universalist intellectual heritage materials widely available and free is a value to you, please donate whatever you can--every little bit helps: Donate
1817 – The Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau attended Harvard College. Only two of his books were published during his lifetime, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and Walden. He was reared Unitarian and resigned his membership because he did not want to belong to any organization. He said he would resign from the United States if he knew how. Thoreau died of tuberculosis at the age of 44 and was buried at First Parish in Concord after a eulogy by Emerson. Read more about Henry David Thoreau.
