Joseph Henry Allen

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Joseph Henry Allen
Born	(1820-08-21)August 21, 1820 Northborough, Massachusetts
Died	March 20, 1898(1898-03-20) (aged 77) Cambridge, Massachusetts
Education	Harvard College
Occupation(s)	Clergyman, editor, scholar
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Joseph Henry Allen (August 21, 1820 – March 20, 1898) was a Unitarian clergyman, editor and scholar.

Biography

He was born in Northborough, Massachusetts, the son of Joseph Allen and Lucy Clark. He prepared for college at a school run by his father in Northborough. He graduated at Harvard College, and then at the Divinity School in 1843. He was pastor at the First Congregational Society in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (1843), the Unitarian church in Washington, D.C. (1847), and a church in Bangor, Maine (1850). In 1857 he departed from full-time ministry and took up teaching (in Jamaica Plain, Northborough and West Newton) and editing Unitarian periodicals (Christian Examiner, 1863-5; Unitarian Review, 1887-1891). He lectured at Harvard for four years (1887-1891).[1]

He died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts on March 20, 1898.[2]

Works

• Ten Discourses on Orthodoxy (1849)[3]
• Hebrew Men and Times (to the Christian era), (Boston, 1861)
• Manual Latin Grammar (1868)
• A Latin Reader (with his brother William Francis Allen; 1869)
• A Latin Primer (1870)
• Our Liberal Movement in Theology, chiefly as Shown in Recollections of the History of Unitarianism in New England (1882)
• Christian History in its Three Great Periods, (1) Early Christianity, (2) The Middle Age, (3) Modern Phases (three volumes, 1882–83)
• Historical Sketch of the Unitarian Movement since the Reformation, (New York, 1894).

Latin manuals he prepared with James B. Greenough were familiar to high school students.

References

1. Rand, John Clark (1890). One of a Thousand: A Series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand Representative Men Resident in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A.D. 1888-'89. First National Publishing Company. pp. 14–15.
2. "Death List of a Day". The New York Times. March 22, 1898. p. 7. Retrieved November 19, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
3.  "Allen, Joseph Henry". The Biographical Dictionary of America. Vol. 1. 1906. p. 88.

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• George Willis Cooke (2007). Unitarianism in America. BiblioBazaar, LLC. ISBN 978-1-4264-3141-8.
• Charles Graves (1927–1936). "Allen, Joseph Henry". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

External links

• Media related to Joseph Henry Allen at Wikimedia Commons
• Works by or about Joseph Henry Allen at Wikisource
• Joseph Henry Allen at the Database of Classical Scholars
• Works by or about Joseph Henry Allen at the Internet Archive
• Historical correspondence with Joseph Henry Allen is in the Harvard Divinity School Library at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.