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 Joseph May, the son of the Rev. Samuel Joseph May and Lucretia Flagg Coffin May, was born in Boston on January 21, 1836. He received an AB from Harvard in 1857. After several years in Europe, he entered Harvard Divinity School and graduated in...

Photograph William Newell was born in Littleton, Massachusetts, on February 25, 1804. He graduated from Boston Latin School in 1818. He received an AB from Harvard in 1824 and an AM in 1827. He graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1829. In a college...

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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...