Horatio Hastings Weld

Horatio Hastings Weld (4 February 1811 - 27 August 1888) (commonly referred to as H. Hastings Weld) was an American author, newspaper editor and minister.[1] In 1845 he became an Episcopal minister.[1][2]

Weld was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1811. In 1845, Weld wss ordained a minister in the Episcopal Church. He would serve as rector of St. James Episcopal Church of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, Trinity Church of Moorestown, New Jersey and Christ Church of Riverton, New Jersey.[3]

Weld’s books include The Women of the Scriptures (1848); Life of Christ (1850); and Sacred and Poetical Quotations (1851).

Weld worked with several publications, include the Brother Jonathan and the short-lived Evening Tattler in New York City.[4]

Weld died in Riverton in 1888.

References

  1. 1 2 Wilson, James Grant & Fiske, John (eds.) Appleton's cyclopædia of American biography, Volume 6, p.424 (1889)
  2. ↑ Husch, Gail E. Something coming: apocalyptic expectation and mid-nineteenth-century American painting, p.233 (2000) (ISBN 978-1584650065)
  3. ↑ "H. Hastings Weld". Blue Letter Bible. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
  4. ↑ Kopley, Richard. Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin mysteries, p.107 (2008) (ISBN 978-0230604704)


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