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A Short Biography of William Rounseville Alger

Author Name:

William Rounseville Alger

Born As:

William Rounseville Alger

Other Names:

William Rounseville Alger

Born:

1822

Died:

1905




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Writer and theologian                          
                          
                          
Attended Harvard Divinity School from 1844-1847.In 1848, he was ordained as a Unitarian minister in Roxbury, Massachusetts, where he served until 1855.He also served at the Bulfinch Street Church in Boston and, later at churches in New York, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Louisiana, and Rhode Island.He was a member of the Free Masons and was an active abolitionist, as noted in his 1857 Fourth of July address "The Genius and Posture of America." He was a contributor to the publications Old and New and the Christian Examiner, the latter of which he co-edited during the 1860s.His major literary works included The Poetry of the East - 1856-  and A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life - 1860.