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EDWARD EVERETT HALE (1822-1909)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 832 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD See also:EVERETT See also:HALE (1822-1909)  , See also:American author, was See also:born in See also:Boston on the 3rd of See also:April 1822, son of Nathan See also:Hale (1784–1863), proprietor and editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, See also:nephew of See also:Edward See also:Everett, the orator and statesman, and See also:grand-nephew of Nathan Hale, the See also:martyr See also:spy . He graduated from Harvard in 1839; was pastor of the See also:church of the Unity, See also:Worcester, See also:Massachusetts, in 1846–1856, and of the See also:South Congregational (Unitarian) church, Boston, in 1856–1899; and in 1903 became See also:chaplain of the See also:United States See also:Senate . He died at See also:Roxbury (Boston), Massachusetts, on the loth of See also:June 1909 . His forceful See also:personality, organizing See also:genius, and liberal See also:practical See also:theology, together with his deep See also:interest in the See also:anti-See also:slavery See also:movement (especially in See also:Kansas), popular See also:education (especially See also:Chautauqua See also:work), and the working-See also:man's See also:home, were active in raising the See also:tone of American See also:life for See also:half a See also:century . He was a See also:constant and voluminous contributor to the See also:newspapers and magazines . He was an assistant editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, and edited the See also:Christian Examiner, Old and New (which he assisted in See also:founding in 1869; in 1875 it was merged in Scribner's See also:Magazine), Lend a See also:Hand (founded by him in 1886 and merged in the Charities See also:Review in 1897), and the Lend a Hand See also:Record; and he was the author or editor of more than sixty books—fiction, travel, sermons, See also:biography and See also:history . He first came into See also:notice as a writer in 1859, when he contributed the See also:short See also:story " My See also:Double and How He Undid Me " to the See also:Atlantic Monthly . He soon published in the same periodical other stories, the best known of which was " The Man Without a See also:Country " (1863), which did much to strengthen the See also:Union cause in the See also:North, and in which, as in some of his other non-romantic tales, he employed a See also:minute See also:realism which has led his readers to suppose the narrative a record of fact . The two stories mentioned, and such others as " The Rag-Man and the Rag-Woman " and " The See also:Skeleton in the Closet," gave him a prominent position among the short-story writers of See also:America . The story Ten Times One is Ten (187o), with its See also:hero Harry Wadsworth, and its See also:motto, first enunciated in 1869 in his See also:Lowell See also:Institute lectures, " Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand," led to the formation among See also:young See also:people of " Lend-a-Hand Clubs," " Look-up Legions " and " Harry Wadsworth Clubs." Out of the romantic Waldensian story In His Name (1873) there similarly See also:grew several other organizations for religious work, such as " See also:King's Daughters," and " King's Sons." Among his other books are Kansas and See also:Nebraska (1854) ; The See also:Ingham Papers (1869); His Level Best, and Other Stories (187o) ;-HALE, J . P . See also:Sybaris and Other Homes (1871); See also:Philip Nolan's See also:Friends (1876), his best-known novel, and a sequel to The Man Without a Country; The See also:Kingdom of See also:God (188o); See also:Christmas at See also:Narragansett (1885); See also:East and See also:West, a novel (1892) ; For Fifty Years (poems, 1893) ; See also:Ralph See also:Waldo See also:Emerson (1899); We, the People (1903); Prayers Offered in the Senate of the United States (1904), and Tarry-at-Home Travels (1906) .

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Lingard's History of See also:England (1853), and contributed to See also:Winsor's Memorial History of Boston (1880-1881), and to his Narrative and See also:Critical History of America (1886–1889) . With his son, Edward Everett Hale, Jr., he published See also:Franklin in See also:France (2 vols., 1887–1888), based largely on See also:original See also:research . The most charming books of his later years were A New England Boyhood (1893), See also:James See also:Russell Lowell and His Friends (1899), and Memories of a See also:Hundred Years (1902) A See also:uniform and revised edition of his See also:principal writings, in ten volumes, appeared in 1899–1901 .

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