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

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