COLLOT  D'HERBOIS,

JEAN MARIE (1750-1796), French revolutionist, was a Parisian by birth and an actor by profession . After figuring for some years at the principal provincial theatres of France and Holland, he became director of the playhouse at Geneva . He had from the first a share in the revolutionary independent preacher and lecturer, and in 1859, having joined the Unitarian Church, became a missionary of that church in Chicago, Illinois . In 186o he organized and became pastor of the Unity Church, the second Unitarian church in Chicago . Under his guidance the church grew to be one of the strongest of that denomination in the West, and Mr Collyer himself came to be looked upon as one of the foremost pulpit orators in the country . During the Civil War he was active in the work of the Sanitary Commission . In 1879 he left Chicago and became pastor of the church of the Messiah in New York city, and in 1903 he became pastor emeritus . He published: Nature and Life (1867); A Man in Earnest: Life of A . H . Conant (1868); The Life That Now is (1871); The Simple Truth (1877); Talks to Young Men: With Asides to Young Women (1888); Things New and Old (1893); Father Taylor (1906); and A History of the Town and Parish of Ilkley (with Horsefall Turner, 1886) .