JOHN GORHAM PALFREY (1796-1881)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V20,
Page 629
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also: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
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
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
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He was editor of the See also:North American See also:Review, 1835-1843
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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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