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JOHN GORHAM PALFREY (1796-1881)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 629 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN GORHAM See also:PALFREY (1796-1881)  , See also:American historian, was See also:born in See also:Boston, See also:Massachusetts, on the 2nd of May 1796 . He graduated at Harvard, 1815, and became a Unitarian See also:minister, being pastor of the Brattle Square See also:church, Boston, 1818—r831 . He was See also:professor of sacred literature in the Harvard divinity school, 183o-1839 . Entering politics, he was secretary of See also:state of Massachusetts, 1844—1847; a representative in See also:Congress, 1847—1849; and postmaster of Boston, 1861—1867 . He was editor of the See also:North American See also:Review, 1835-1843 . As a writer he is best known by his See also:History of New See also:England to the revolutionary See also:war, in five volumes, of which the first appeared in 1859 and the last posthumcusly in 1890 . He died at See also:Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the 26th of See also:April 1881 .

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