Dall, C. H. A. (Charles Henry Appleton), 1816-1886

American Unitarian clergyman and author.

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Toronto, to the Reverend John Pierpont, 1852 Dec. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270529157

Unitarian minister and missionary. A.B. Harvard, 1837; graduated from Harvard Divinity School, 1840. Minister in Needham, Mass. and Toronto, Ontario. Led Unitarian mission in Calcutta, India (1855-1886).

From the description of Papers, 1836-1886 (inclusive). (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 269368109

Charles Henry Appleton Dall (1816-1886) graduated from Harvard College in 1837 and Harvard Divinity School in 1840 and was then ordained to the Unitarian ministry. He was sent to St. Louis where he organized the first free school for the poor located west of the Mississippi River. Rev. Dall served Unitarian parishes in Maryland, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Ontario, Canada, until 1855 when he became the first foreign missionary of the Unitarian Church in America. Rev. Dall's missionary work took him to Calcutta, India, where he established five schools and worked with Hindu social and cultural reformers.

From the guide to the Papers, 1836-1885., (Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School)

From the guide to the Papers, 1836-1886., (Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School)

Caroline Healey was born in Boston on June 22, 1822, and became vice principal of a women's school in Washington, D. C., in 1840. She was a feminist writer and journal editor, and ran a private school out of her home in her later years. Healey married Reverend Charles Henry Appleton Dall (1816-1886) in September 1844, and they had at least two children, William Healey and Sarah Keene ("Sadie"). Minister Charles H.A. Dall became the first Unitarian missionary in India, where he lived from 1855 until his death in 1886; his family remained in the United States. Sarah Keene Dall, born in September 1849, married Josiah Munro around 1870 or 1871. They moved to Buffalo, New York, in the mid-1870s, where he worked as the manager of the branch office of Oriental Powder Mills. Sarah and Josiah Munro had two sons, Willis and Charles.

William Healy Dall was born in Boston on August 21, 1845. He studied medicine and anatomy at Harvard until he volunteered to help restore order during the Boston draft riots of 1863. Between 1863 and 1869 he assisted in geological surveys around Lake Superior and in Alaska. In 1870, he moved to Alaska, where he worked as a geologist and paleontologist. He moved back to the east coast around 1885, and became an honorary curator of the Smithsonian Museum and a professor at the Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia. He married Annette "Nettie" Whitney on March 3, 1880, and they had four children: Charles, Marion, Marcus, and William. William Healey Dall died on March 27, 1927.

From the guide to the Dall family papers, 1824-1911, 1942, 1824-1911, (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan)