Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888

Unitarian minister; trustee of the Boston Public Library, 1879-88; active on behalf of temperance, anti-slavery, women's sufferage movements; died in Jamaica Plain, Boston.

Clarke was a Unitarian clergyman, author, and reformer closely associated with the Transcendentalists. He was minister in Louisville, Ky. (1833-1840) and at the Church of the Disciples in Boston (1841-1850, 1854-1888). Clarke was editor of the Western Messenger (1836-1839). In 1839 he married Anna Huidekoper, daughter of Harm Jan Huidekoper, businessman, lay theologian, and founder of Meadville Theological Seminary.

Unitarian minister.

Clarke was an American preacher, clergyman, founder of the Church of the Disciples, editor of the Western messenger, and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Fields, of Ticknor and Fields, was the publisher of the Atlantic monthly and the North American review.

American Unitarian clergyman.

Unitarian minister. A.B. Harvard 1829. Graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1833. Minister in Louisville, Ky. (1833-1840). Founded the Church of the Disciples in Boston in 1841 and served as its minister thereafter. See sketch in Dictionary of American Biography.

Rev. James Freeman Clarke was a Unitarian clergyman, author, and abolitionist.

American Unitarian clergyman and author.

Clarke was a Unitarian clergyman, author, and reformer closely associated with the Transcendentalists. He was minister in Louisville, Ky. (1833-1840) and at the Church of the Disciples in Boston (1841-1850, 1854-1888).In 1839 Clarke married Anna Huidekoper, daughter of Harm Jan Huidekoper, businessman, lay theologian, and founder of Meadville Theological Seminary. Rev. James Freeman (1759-1835) of Boston, Mass. was James Freeman Clarke's step-grandfather. James Freeman Clarke's grandfather, William Hull (1753-1825), was a general in the American Revolution and governor of the Michigan Territory. He was court-martialled for failing to invade Canada in the War of 1812, but his Revolutionary War record prevented his execution. Henry Dearborn, a general in the War of 1812, presided over Hull's trial.

Clarke was a Unitarian clergyman, author, and reformer closely associated with the Transcendentalists. He was minister in Louisville, Ky. (1833-1840) and at the Church of the Disciples in Boston (1841-1850, 1854-1888). Clarke was editor of the Western Messenger (1836-1839). He was married in 1839 to Anna Huidekoper, daughter of Harm Jan Huidekoper, businessman, lay theologian, and founder of Meadville Theological Seminary.

Clarke was a Unitarian clergyman, author, and reformer closely associated with the Transcendentalists. He was minister in Louisville, Ky. (1833-1840) and at the Church of the Disciples in Boston (1841-1850, 1854-1888). Fuller was a literary critic, editor, teacher, and political activist also closely associated with the Transcendentalists.

James Freeman Clarke was a Unitarian clergyman, author, and educator. A graduate of Harvard and Cambridge divinity school, he founded the Church of Disciples in Boston, devising an original form of worship. He was active in education and reform issues, maintained a close affiliation with Harvard, and published a number of works on religious themes.

Unitarian clergyman.

Unitarian minister; from Boston, Mass.

Clarke was a Unitarian clergyman, author, and reformer closely associated with the Transcendentalists. He was minister in Louisville, Ky. (1833-1840) and at the Church of the Disciples in Boston (1841-1850, 1854-1888).

In 1839 Clarke married Anna Huidekoper, daughter of Harm Jan Huidekoper, businessman, lay theologian, and founder of Meadville Theological Seminary.

Rev. James Freeman (1759-1835) of Boston, Mass. was James Freeman Clarke's step-grandfather. James Freeman Clarke's grandfather, William Hull (1753-1825), was a general in the American Revolution and governor of the Michigan Territory. He was court martialled for failing to invade Canada in the War of 1812, but his Revolutionary War record prevented his execution. Henry Dearborn, a general in the War of 1812, presided over Hull's trial.

James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) graduated from Boston Latin School in 1825, Harvard College in 1829, and Harvard Divinity School in 1833. Ordained as a Unitarian minister in 1833, Rev. Clarke was sent to Louisville, Kentucky, as a missionary evangelist. While in Kentucky, he co-founded the Unitarian journal The Western Messenger . He served as chaplain of the Massachusetts State Senate in 1844, and as the secretary of the American Unitarian Association from 1859 to 1861. He was a lifelong advocate of education reform and as such served on the Massachusetts State Board of Education from 1863 to 1869. In 1867, he was appointed to the faculty of Harvard Divinity School as Professor of Natural Theology and Christian Doctrine, where he pioneered the discipline of comparative theology. His published works include Ten Great Religions (2 volumes, 1871 and 1883) and Events and Epochs in Religious History (1881).