People (UU)

Photograph In March 1965, the Reverend Dana McLean Greeley (second from left), Unitarian Universalist Association President, joined other American religious leaders in civil rights marches in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma, Alabama. Reverend George...

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Photograph Edward B. Payne (1845-1923) was ordained by the First Church in Leominster, Mass., in 1887; he served there until 1891. Payne had been a Congregational minister in Berkeley, Calif., from 1875 to 1880, but he resigned his pastorate and became a...

Photograph Credit: Pach Bro's, Cambridge, Mass. [ Peabody, Francis Greenwood, with negative] For more information, see the exhibit page where this is displayed and also Report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery. According to...

Photograph Wilburn Daniel Potter was born near Canton, New York, on July 13, 1863. He attended Canton High School and graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1886. After teaching school in Colton, New York, for several years, he entered St. Lawrence...

Photograph Levi Moore Powers was born on Mar. 21, 1864, in Newry, Me. As a child, he attended the Union Church at Newry Corner (then a Methodist congregation) but resisted the orthodox doctrine of hell he heard preached there. He attended Gould Academy in...

Photograph Augustus Phineas Reccord. Unitarian minister who served congregations in Chelsea, Massachusetts; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Newport, Rhode Island; Springfield, Massachusetts; and Detroit, Michigan. [ Reccord, Augustus Phineas] For more...

Engraving William Henry Ryder was born in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on July 18, 1822. He studied at the Pembroke Academy in New Hampshire and the Liberal Institute in Clinton, New York. He was ordained in Concord, New Hampshire, on October 11, 1843...

Photograph Minot Judson Savage was born June 10, 1841, in Norridgewock, Me., and joined the Congregational Church there at the age of thirteen. He enrolled at the Bangor Theological Seminary and, after serving for a year during the Civil War with the...

Newspaper Story For more information, see the exhibit page where this is displayed.