Joseph Henry Allen

For other people named Henry Allen, see Henry Allen (disambiguation).

Joseph Henry Allen (August 21, 1820–March 20, 1898) was a Unitarian clergyman, editor and scholar.

Biography

He was born in Northborough, Massachusetts. 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).

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Joseph Henry Allen

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

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