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HENRY MARTYN FIELD (1822-1907)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 322 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:MARTYN See also:FIELD (1822-1907)  , See also:American author and clergyman, See also:brother of See also:Cyrus See also:Field, was See also:born at See also:Stockbridge, See also:Massachusetts, on the 3rd of See also:April 1822; he graduated at See also:Williams See also:College in .1838, and was pastor of a Presbyterian See also:church in St See also:Louis, See also:Missouri, from 1842 to 1847, and of a Congregational church in See also:West `'pringfield, Massachusetts, from 185o to 1854 . The See also:interval between his two pastorates he spent in See also:Europe . From 1854 to 1898 he was editor and for many years he was also See also:sole proprietor of The Evangelist, a New See also:York periodical devoted to the interests of the Presbyterian church . He spent the last years of his See also:life in retirement at Stock-See also:bridge, See also:Mass., where he died on the 26th of See also:January 1907 . He was the author of a See also:series of books of travel, which achieved unusual popularity . His two volumes descriptive of a trip See also:round the See also:world in 1875-1876, entitled From the Lakes of See also:Killarney to the See also:Golden See also:Horn (1876) and From See also:Egypt to See also:Japan (1877), are almost classic in their way, and have passed through more than twenty See also:editions . Among his other publications are The Irish Confederates and the See also:Rebellion of 1798 (1850), The See also:History of the See also:Atlantic See also:Telegraph (1866), Faith or See also:Agnosticism? the Field-See also:Ingersoll Discussion (1888), Old See also:Spain and New Spain (1888), and Life of See also:David See also:Dudley Field (1898) . He is not to be confused with another See also:HENRY See also:MARTYN FIELD, the gynaecologist, who was born in 1837 at See also:Brighton, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1859 and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York See also:City in 1862; he was See also:professor of Materia Medica and See also:therapeutics at See also:Dartmouth from 1871 to 1887 and of therapeutics from 1887 to 1893 .

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