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...

Photograph Thomas William Silloway, son of Thomas Silloway, Sr., and Susan Stone Silloway, was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, on August 7, 1828. He was educated in the public schools in Newburyport. At age 16, his father apprenticed him to Robert...

Photograph Anna Carpenter Garlin Spencer (Apr. 17, 1851-Feb. 12, 1931) was born in Attleboro, Mass., and grew up in Providence, R.I. After public school and "private collegiate work," she taught school in Providence (1869-71), wrote articles for the...

Photograph Oliver Stearns was born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, on June 3, 1807. He received an AB from Harvard in 1826 and an AM in 1829. While serving as a tutor in mathematics at Harvard, he studied at the Divinity School and graduated in the class of...

Photograph Credit: Pach Bros, Cambridge, Mass. [ Toy, Crawford Howell, with negative] For more information, see the exhibit page where this is displayed.

Ware Lectures, 1966 Ware Lectures, 1966. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dana McLean Greeley, and Homer Jack. For more information, see the exhibit page where this is displayed.

Photograph Photo of the cast of "Prophet of Good Luck," a play given by members of the First Universalist Church in Bridgeport, Conn., and written by the Rev. Bernard Ruggles (published by him in 1916). The play includes a cast of characters including...

Photograph Theodore Fischer was born in Meriden, Connecticut, on September 19, 1873. He received a BD degree from Tufts in 1896 and was ordained on June 19, 1896. He served the Universalist church in Warren, Massachusetts (1896-99), the Medford Hillside...

Photograph William Channing Gannett was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 13, 1840. He received an AB from Harvard in 1860 and an AM in 1863. He entered Harvard Divinity School in 1861 but left midyear to work on the Sea Islands of South Carolina...

Photograph Edward Hale, son of William Bainbridge Hale and Harriett Amelia Porter Hale, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, on February 22, 1858. He studied at Phillips Exeter and Harvard, where he wrote for the Advocate and the Lampoon. After...