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HENRY WHITNEY BELLOWS (1814-1882)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 705 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:WHITNEY See also:BELLOWS (1814-1882)  , See also:American clergyman, was See also:born in See also:Boston, See also:Massachusetts, on the 11th of See also:June 1814 . He graduated at Harvard See also:College in 1832, and at the Harvard Divinity School in 1837, held a brief pastorate (1837-1838) at See also:Mobile, See also:Alabama, and in 1839 became pastor of the First Congregational (Unitarian) See also:church in New See also:York See also:City (afterwards All Souls church), in See also:charge of which he remained until his See also:death . Here See also:Bellows acquired a high reputation as a See also:pulpit orator and See also:lyceum lecturer, and was a recognized See also:leader in the Unitarian Church in See also:America . For many years after 1846 he edited The See also:Christian Inquirer, a Unitarian weekly See also:paper, and he was also for some See also:time an editor of The Christian Examiner . In 1857 he delivered a See also:series of lectures in the See also:Lowell See also:Institute course, on " The Treatment of Social Diseases." At the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War he planned the See also:United States Sanitary See also:Commission, of which he was the first and only See also:president (1861 to 1878) . He was the first president of the first Civil Service Reform Association' organized in the United States (1877), was an organizer of the See also:Union See also:League See also:Club and of the See also:Century Association in New York City, and planned with his parishioner and friend, See also:Peter See also:Cooper, the See also:establishment of Cooper Union . In 1865 he proposed and organized the See also:national See also:conference of Unitarian and other Christian churches, and from 1865 to 188o was chairman of its See also:council . He died in New York City on the 3oth of See also:January 1882 . A See also:bronze memorial tablet by See also:Augustus See also:Saint Gaudens was unveiled in All Souls church in 1886 . His published writings include Restatements of Christian See also:Doctrine in Twenty-Five Sermons (186o); Unconditioned See also:Loyalty (1863), a strong See also:pro-Union See also:sermon, which was widely circulated during the Civil War; The Old See also:World in its New See also:Face: Impressions of See also:Europe in 1867-1868 (2 vols., 1868-1869); See also:Historical See also:Sketch of the Union League Club (1879); and Twenty-Four Sermons in All Souls Church, New York, 1865-1881 (1886) . See See also:Russell N . Bellows, See also:Henry See also:Whitney Bellows (See also:Keene, N.H., 1897), a See also:biographical sketch reprinted from T .

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Peck's Bellows See also:Family See also:Genealogy; See also:John See also:White See also:Chadwick, Henry W . Bellows: His See also:Life and See also:Character (New York, 1882), a memorial address; and See also:Charles J . Stille, See also:History of the United States Sanitary Commission (See also:Philadelphia, 1866) .

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