Ancestry of William Ellery Channing, Genealogy.

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Ancestry of William Ellery Channing, Genealogy.

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Publisher's advertisement for AMERICAN AUTHOR'S ANCESTRY by John Osborne Austin, n.d. (Limited Edition) -- contents and summary described. Related collections: Ms.24.89 and Ms.79.11.

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Brown University Archives, John Hay Library

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Austin, John Osborne, 1849-1918

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Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842

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William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) graduated from Harvard College in 1798. He served on the board of the Harvard Corporation from 1813 to 1826, where he worked for the establishment of the Divinity School, which occurred in 1816. A Unitarian minister, Channing served as the pastor of the Federal Street Church in Boston from 1803 until his death in 1842. In 1819 he gave the landmark Unitarian sermon, Unitarian Christianity, which upon publication sold thousands of copies. A believer in the aboli...