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This biographical information comes from various sources. The General Catalogue of the Divinity School of Harvard University (Cambridge: The University, 1920) is the main source of information for all students who attended the Divinity School through the 1919/1920 academic year. Unitarian ministers were also researched through obituaries and files in the Manuscripts and Archives collection. Additional sources for some include American National Biography (edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999; noted as ANB) and Who Was Who (New York, etc.: St. Martin's Press, etc.; noted as WWW). Top row (right to left): Henry Collier Wright (Methodist). Wright was born in Le Roy, Ohio, on 29 August 1868. After attending the Divinity School until 1896, Wright was ordained a deacon and subsequently served in Austin, Minnesota, Dubuque, Iowa, St. Paul, Minnesota, Cincinnati, Ohio. He received a Ph.D. from Boston University in 1900. Wright also served with the Russell Sage Foundation and was the First Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Public Charities in New York City. As a sociologist, he authored numerous books including Bossism in Cincinnati (1906) and The American City (1915). He died in 1935. [WWW] Joseph Langton (Presbyterian). Langton was born in Watertown, New York, on 5 May 1862. After receiving an A.M. at Harvard in 1896, he was ordained and served in Quebec, Londonderry, New Hampshire, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and Wetonka, South Dakota. Horace Eaton (Unitarian). Eaton was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, on 13 October 1871. After receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1900, Eaton taught German and English at the University of Vermont and, later, English at Syracuse University. He edited The Diary of Thomas De Quincey for 1803. He died in 1958. [WWW] Joseph Cady Allen (Unitarian). Allen was born in Rochester, New York, on 30 January 1869. After attending the Divinity School for one year, Allen was ordained and served in Winona, Michigan, Redlands, California, Scituate, Massachusetts, Yarmouth, Maine, Walpole and Hubbardston, Massachusetts, Charlestown, New Hampshire, Farmington, Maine, Genesco, Illinois (following a brief stint as a troubadoring Shakespearean actor in the British Isles), Rowe, Massachusetts, and Bernardston, Massachusetts. He died in 1955. William Channing Brown (Unitarian). Brown was born in Sherborn, Massachusetts, on 7 March 1868. After attending the Divinity School for one year, Brown served parishes in Gardner (ordained 1895), Hubbardston (1895-1898), Littleton (1898-1904), Wheeling, West Virginia (1924-1928), and Sudbury. Massachusetts (1929-1935). Brown also was appointed Field Secretary of the Unitarian Universalist Association, a position he held from 1904-1923. Brown, at the time the oldest member of the Unitarian Universalist Association and a minister emeritus in Littleton, Massachusetts, died in 1967 at the age of 100. [WWW] Anna Diller [Starbuck] Anna Diller was the daughter of Isaac Diller. Almost blind from spiral meningitis as a young girl, she was sent to a private school in Ontario, Canada, where she developed a special interest in music. She later studied in Leipzig with Hershift, a student of Franz Lizst, and was one of the first to use the "sensitive touch" technique of Leschetizky. She was one of the first two Radcliffe women to take courses at Harvard (under William James, Josiah Royce, and Dean C.C. Everett). She was married in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on 5 August 1896, to Edwin Starbuck (who changed his middle name to her maiden name), and had eight children. She taught in the Music Department of the University of Iowa from about 1913 until her death on 12 February 1929. [For bibliography, see under Starbuck] Top | Back to list | Back to photograph | Exhibit Home Page Second row from top (right to left):
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Top | Back to list | Back to photograph | Exhibit Home Page Third row from top (right to left): George Rudolph Gebauer (Unitarian). Gebauer was born in Schmardt, Germany, on 17 March 1857. After graduating from the Gymnasium in Brieg and serving in the army for one year, he emigrated to Philadelphia where an uncle was a Reformed pastor. Before entering the Divinity School, he was in business in the West. He served churches in Cincinnati, Ohio, Alton, Illinois, Duluth, Minnesota, Keokuk, Iowa, and Pittsburg (Northside), Pennsylvania. He died in 1930. Earl Boyton Wood (Congregationalist). Wood was born in Bangor, Maine, on 7 January 1871. After attending the Divinity School, Wood was ordained and served in Lovell and Fort Fairfield, Maine. He died in 1899. Frederick Marsh Bennett (Unitarian). Bennet was born in Woodstock, Ohio, on 6 April 1866. After receiving his A.M. from Harvard in 1895, he was ordained and served in Carthage, Missouri, Keokuk, Iowa, Lawrence, Kansas, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Youngstown, Ohio. Bennet also served as a Unitarian Conference Field Agent for the Middle States and Canada. He died in 1929. Carlos Carson Rowlinson (Disciples). Rowlinson was born in Kent, Indiana, on 5 May 1895. After attending Harvard, he was ordained and served in Jefferson City, Missouri, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Marshalltown, Iowa, Indianapolis, Indiana, , Kenton, Ohio, Iowa City, Iowa and La Crosse, Wisconsin. Top | Back to list | Back to photograph | Exhibit Home Page Fourth row from top (right to left): ??? Angelo Hall (Unitarian). Hall was born in Washington, DC (Georgetown), on 16 December 1868. After attending Harvard, he was ordained and served in Turners Falls, Massachusetts, and Andover, New Hampshire. Later, Hall served as Instructor and then Professor of Mathematics at the U.S. Naval Academy. He died in 1922. Charles Melvin Crooks (Congregationalist). Crooks was born in Van Wert County, Ohio, on 27 September 1870. He served churches in these Massachusetts cities: Colrain, Grafton, Worcester, Brockton, and Barre. He died in 1962. Silas Jones (Disciples). Jones was born in Owingsville, KY, on 11 February 1867. After attending the Divinity School for two years, Jones was ordained and served in Newman and Sterling, Illinois. Later, Jones served as Professor of Sacred Literature and Philosophy at Eureka College. Top | Back to list | Back to photograph | Exhibit Home Page Bottom row (right to left): Arthur H. Coar (Unitarian). Coar was born in Yonkers, New York, on 26 August 1872. After receiving his A.M. from Harvard in 1898, Coar was ordained and served in Ellsworth, Maine, Farmington, Maine, Holyoke and Amherst, Massachusetts, Elizabeth, New Jersey, and Pembroke, Massachusetts. He died in 1950. Lyman Manchester Greenman (Unitarian). Greenman was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on 10 May 1870. After attending the Divinity School for two years, he was ordained and served in Grafton and Gloucester, Massachusetts, Yonkers and New Brighton, New York, and Quincy, Illinois. Kernan Robson. Robson was born in North Greenfield, Ohio, on 22 September 1892. After attending the Divinity School for one year, he was Professor of English language and Literature at the University of South Dakota, 1895-1897. Top | Back to list | Back to photograph | Exhibit Home Page Top row (left to right): Edwin Diller Starbuck.Edwin Diller Starbuck was born in Guilford Township, Indiana, on 20 February 1866. Starbuck was raised in the Quaker tradition, though by early adulthood he had developed a highly critical view of traditional Christian dogma. Investigating Christian belief, however, was more for Starbuck than a personal endeavor. After receiving an A.B. degree in 1890 from Indiana University, Starbuck enrolled at Harvard to study religion, philosophy and psychology. While at Harvard, Starbuck engaged in independent research in what is now called the psychology of religion. Having developed various questionnaires "measuring" individual religious experience, Starbuck, largely outside of formal instruction, linked religious experience and psychology, a hitherto unknown field of study. In Dean Everett's class in Systematic Theology (which he remembered in his essay "Religion's Use of Me"), he met Anna Maria Diller, a fellow student, whom he married in 1896.
Starbuck's early work at Harvard elicited a mixed response, with some claiming that psychology and religion "have nothing to do with one each other." Importantly, one of Starbuck's chief supporters was William James, who incorporated Starbuck's findings in The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902). After receiving his A.M. from Harvard in 1895, Starbuck enrolled in Ph.D. studies at Clark University. After receiving his Ph.D. two years later, Starbuck published his The Psychology of Religion, the first text in the new field. Starbuck spent much of his life teaching, holding positions at
Stanford University (Assistant Professor of Education, 1897-1903),
Earlham College (Professor of Education, 1904-1906), the State
University of Iowa (Professor of Philosophy, 1906-1930), and the
University of California (Professor of Philosophy and Psychology).
Between his time at Stanford and Earlham, Starbuck studied in Germany
under Ernst Meumann, a leading scholar in the new field of educational
psychology. After his time in Germany, Starbuck concentrated on
"character education," including work with the American
Unitarian Association on religious education curricula. Jon Pierce Fox. Born in Dorchester on 5 November 1872, Fox received his A.B. from Harvard in 1894 and attended the Divinity School for one year. Fox was a municipal consultant, specializing in transportation, zoning and city planning, primarily in New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. Beginning in 1928, Fox served as a consultant on the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg. [WWW] Charles Albert Parker (Baptist). Parker was born in Ludlow, Maine, on 8 January 1869. After graduating from Brown (A.B. and A.M.) and the Rochester Theological Seminary, Parker attended the Divinity School for almost two years and was ordained in 1889. After ordination, he served in Lake City, CO, Carver, Quincy, Los Gatos, San Jose, and Redwood City, California. Herbert Cunningham Farwell (Unitarian). Farwell was born in Clinton, Massachusetts, on 5 November 1868 and was ordained on 18 June 1899. He was Superintendent of the Salem Fraternity ("The Oldest American Boys Club") for 56 years beginning in 1899. He died in 1954. John Henry Applebee (Unitarian). Applebee was born in Davenport, England, on 12 March 1868. The son of a Methodist then Unitarian minister, Applebee moved to the United States and graduated from Meadville (Chicago) in 1894. After attending the Divinity school for one year, Applebee was ordained and served parishes in Buffalo, New York, West Roxbury, Attleborough, and Syracuse, New York. Applebee also served in the American Red Cross Home Services during World War I. Top | Back to list | Back to photograph | Exhibit Home Page Second row from the top (left to right): Edward Kennard Rand . Rand was born in Boston on 20 December 1871 and received his A.B. (1894) and A.M. (1895) from Harvard and his Ph.D. from the University of Munich (1900). Rand held three positions at Harvard throughout his career: Instructor of Latin (1901-1906), Assistant Professor of Latin (1906-1909) and Professor of Latin (1909-1942; Pope Professor of Latin after 1931). He served as annual professor and later trustee and life member of the American Academy of Rome. He was president of the American Philological Association and one of the founders of the Mediaeval Academy of America, serving as its first president and the editor of the first three volumes of its journal, Speculum, for which he suggested the name. He became a high church Anglican and had passed the collection plate at the Church of the Advent on the morning of the Sunday he died in 1945. In recognition of his scholarship and lifelong devotion to France, he was posthumously awarded the degree of Docteur de l'Université by the University of Paris. His works included Founders of the Middle Ages (1928), The Magical Art of Virgil (1931), and the Building of Eternal Rome (1943). [ANB] Adelbert Lathrop Hudson (Unitarian). Lathrop was born on 12 November 1853 in Richland, New York, received an L.L.B. from the University of Iowa. He practiced law for 17 years, first as the County Attorney in Algona, Iowa, and 1883 with a firm in Sioux City. It was in Sioux City that, as a layman, he helped organize the First Unitarian Church in 1885. His interest in religion was so keen that he decided to study for the ministry. He received his A.B. (1893) from Harvard and graduated from the Divinity School in 1895. He was ordained in 1897 and served parishes in Salt Lake City, Buffalo, New York, Newton and Quincy, Massachusetts. In 1920, he became minister of the First Parish in Dorchester, which he served until his death in 1938. Robert Swain Morison (Unitarian). Morison was born in Milton, Massachusetts, on 13 Oct. 1847. He graduated from Harvard College in 1869 and from the Divinity School in 1872. He was minister of the Independent Congregational Church in Meadville, Pennsylvania, from 1874 to 1878. He served as Librarian (from 1889, emeritus after 1908) and Secretary of the Faculty (1893-1908) at the Divinity School. He died in 1925. Ephraim Emerton Top | Back to list | Back to photograph | Exhibit Home Page Third row from top (left to right): Alexander Pheonix Bourne (Congregationalist). Bourne was born in New York on 7 January 1866. After receiving his A.M. from Harvard in 1895, Bourne was ordained and served parishes in Exeter, New Hampshire, and Cambridge and Rochester, Massachusetts. Burris Atkins Jenkins (Disciples) Born in Kansas City, Missouri, on 2 October 1869 Jenkins received his A.M. from Harvard in 1896. After, he was ordained and served parishes in Santa Barbara, California, Indianapolis, Indiana, Buffalo, New York, and Kansas City, Missouri. Jenkins also briefly served as Professor of the New Testament at the University of Indianapolis and as President of Kentucky University. He published numerous books and was also editor and publisher of The Kansas City Post (1919-1921) and publisher of The Christian (1926-1934). He died in 1945. [WWW] Top | Back to list | Back to photograph | Exhibit Home Page Fourth row from top (left to right): Edward Borncamp (Episcopalian). Born in LeSueur, Minnesota, on 7 November 1868, Borncamp attended the Divinity School for just over one year. Ordained in Boston in 1897, he served parishes in Duxbury, Boston, and Winona, Minnesota. Henry Oliver Hannum (Congregationalist). Born in Kasota, Minnesota, on 19 October 1871, Hannum attended the Divinity School for one year. He served parishes in Southwick, Boston, and Holyoke, Massachusetts, and Superior, Wisconsin. Hannum also briefly worked for the YMCA and the Interchurch World Movement. Willard Reed (Unitarian). Born in Mount Vernon, New York, on 26 June 1876, Reed graduated from Harvard College and received his A.M. after study at the Divinity School in 1895. Reed spent much of his career as an educator, both as an administrator and teacher. In Massachusetts, Reed served at the Roxbury Latin School as well as the Browne and Nichols School. A local political activist, Reed sat on the Cambridge City Democratic Committee. After retirement from education, Reed returned to the ministry, informally serving parishes in the Cambridge area. Both his son, Capt. Willard J. Reed, 32, and grandson, John Reed Copeland, 18, were killed in World War II. Willard Reed died in 1944. Robert Thomas Kerlin (Methodist). Kerlin was born in New Castle, Missouri, on 22 March 1866. After attending the Divinity School, Kerlin briefly served as the Chaplain for the 3rd Regular Missouri Volunteer Infantry. He taught English at a number of colleges, including the Virginia Military Institute (1910-1921), the State Normal School in west Chester, Pennsylvania, (1922-1927), Potomac State College in Keyser. WV, and Western Maryland College. He published numerous books including Theocritus in English Literature (1909) and Negro Poets and Their Poems (1923). He died in 1950. [WWW] Joseph Henry Jones (Unitarian). Jones was born in Holland, VA, 22 October 1869. After graduating from the Divinity school in 1898, he served churches in Providence, Rhode Island, St. Cloud, Minnesota, St. Joseph, Missouri, and Topeka, Kansas. ??? Wallace Nelson Stearns (Methodist). Born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, on 26 August 1866, Stearns received his A.B. (1893) and A.M. (1897) from Harvard. He received a Ph.D. from Boston University (1899) and held teaching and administrative positions at Ohio Wesleyan, Boston University, Northwestern, the University of Illinois, Wesley College, University of North Dakota, Fargo College and McKendree College (Illinois). He published numerous works including Fragments of Graeco-Jewish Writers (1908). He died in 1934. [WWW] Top | Back to list | Back to photograph | Exhibit Home Page Bottom row: Chester James Wilcomb (Baptist). Wilcomb was born in Chester, New Hampshire, on 27 August 1869. After receiving his A.B. from Harvard, Wilcomb continued his education at Columbia (A.M., 1897) and Union Theological Seminary (1898). Wilcomb was ordained in 1898 and briefly served a parish in Greenville, New Hampshire. After, he taught at Dartmouth College and in Brooklyn, New York, San Rafael, California, and Riverside, California. This online exhibit was prepared in 2000.
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