Theodore Parker was an American transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist,his words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr.
James Smith Bush was an American attorney,Episcopal priest,religious writer,and an ancestor of the Bush political family. He was the father of business magnate Samuel P. Bush,grandfather of former U.S. Senator Prescott Bush,great-grandfather of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush and great-great-grandfather of former Texas Governor and President George W. Bush and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
Sylvester Judd was a Unitarian minister and an American novelist.
King's Chapel is an American independent Christian unitarian congregation affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association that is "unitarian Christian in theology,Anglican in worship,and congregational in governance." It is housed in what was for a time after the Revolution called the "Stone Chapel",an 18th-century structure at the corner of Tremont Street and School Street in Boston,Massachusetts. The chapel building,completed in 1754,is one of the finest designs of the noted colonial architect Peter Harrison,and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960 for its architectural significance. The congregation has worshipped according to a Unitarian version of the Book of Common Prayer since 1785,currently in its ninth edition.
George Ripley was an American social reformer,Unitarian minister,and journalist associated with Transcendentalism. He was the founder of the short-lived Utopian community Brook Farm in West Roxbury,Massachusetts.
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright I was a provisional Episcopal bishop in Manhattan,New York City.
James Freeman Clarke was an American minister,theologian and author.
James Walker was a Unitarian minister,professor,and President of Harvard College from February 10,1853,to January 26,1860.
Samuel Willard was a New England Puritan clergyman. He was born in Concord,Massachusetts,graduated from Harvard College in 1659,and was minister at Groton from 1663 to 1676,before being driven out by the Indians during King Philip's War. Willard was pastor of the Third Church,Boston,from 1678 until his death. He opposed the Salem witch trials and was acting president of Harvard University from 1701. He published many sermons;the folio volume,A Compleat Body of Divinity,was published posthumously in 1726.
Rev. Nathaniel Thayer I was a congregational Unitarian minister.
James Freeman was an American Unitarian clergyman and writer,"noteworthy as the first avowed preacher of Unitarianism in the United States". After graduating Harvard and becoming pastor of King's Chapel in Boston,Freeman's revised Book of Common Prayer was adopted by the congregation. This and Freeman's later ordination are credited as the origins of Unitarianism in New England. Later receiving a D.D. from Harvard Divinity School,he was also a founding member of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
John Gorham Palfrey was an American clergyman and historian who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. A Unitarian minister,he played a leading role in the early history of Harvard Divinity School,and he later became involved in politics as a State Representative and U.S. Congressman.
Samuel Miller was a Presbyterian theologian who taught at Princeton Theological Seminary.
Henry Acton was an English Unitarian minister,and author of numerous sermons,pamphlets,lectures,and statements.
Robert Aspland was an English Unitarian minister,editor and activist. To be distinguished from his son Robert Brook Aspland (1805-1869).
Ephraim Peabody was an American Unitarian clergyman,preacher,and philanthropist who was one of the founders of the Provident Institution for Savings in Boston. Peabody also founded a school for adults whose education had been neglected and was otherwise largely interested in devising measures for the relief of the poor.
Edward Thompson Taylor was an American Methodist minister. He joined the New England Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1819 and was an itinerant preacher in southeastern New England for 10 years. In 1829,the Port Society of Boston hired Taylor to be the chaplain of the Seamen’s Bethel,a mission to sailors. In Boston,“Father Taylor”became famous as an eloquent and colorful preacher,a sailors’advocate,and a temperance activist.
Samuel Worcester was a United States clergyman noted for his participation in a controversy over Unitarianism.
Church of the Disciples was a Unitarian church located in Boston,Massachusetts. It was founded by James Freeman Clarke early in 1841. The first public step taken by Clarke was preaching three times in the Phillips Place Chapel,with the purpose of forming a new religious society. The first meeting subsequent to organization was in a part of Amory Hall. The congregation soon outgrew the room and for a while,they met at Ritchie Hall. When they were able to secure the whole of Amory Hall,they returned to it. When it became too small for their increasing numbers,they went to the Masonic Temple. Though an internal split occurred in 1845,the congregation was ready to build its own structure in 1847,the Freeman Place Chapel.
Since the 18th century,there have been several editions of the Book of Common Prayer produced and revised for use by Unitarians. Several versions descend from an unpublished manuscript of alterations to the Church of England's 1662 Book of Common Prayer originally produced by English philosopher and clergyman Samuel Clarke in 1724,with descendant liturgical books remaining in use today.
