Henry Whitney Bellows, the 19th century’s leading Unitarian churchman, died in 1882 at age 67. Read more about Henry Whitney Bellows at: www.HarvardSquareLibrary.org – the digital library of Unitarian Universalism.
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Stanislaus Lutomirski, a Polish priest and secretary to King Sigismund Augustus of Poland, professed his Unitarian beliefs and was appointed superintendent of the Churches of Little Poland by the 19th Synod at Pinczow in 1561.
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1861 – Florida Yates Ruffin Ridley was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She became the second African-American teacher in the Boston public schools. She and her husband lived in Brookline and joined Second Unitarian Church. She founded the Society of Descendants, Early New England Negroes.
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1944 – Emily Taft Douglas, U.S. Congress Representative from Illinois and Moderator of the American Unitarian Association, died at the age of 104. She wrote several books, including a biography of Margaret Sanger. Her father was the sculptor, Loredo Taft. Read more about Emily Taft Douglas at: www.HarvardSquareLibrary.org – the digital library of Unitarian Universalism.
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1844 – James Freeman Clarke announced the opening of Meadville Theological School in Pennsylvania. It opened without endowment. Read more about James Freeman Clarke at: www.HarvardSquareLibrary.org – the digital library of Unitarian Universalism.
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1848 – Henry David Thoreau, a Transcendentalist, delivered a speech at the Concord Lyceum on Resistance to Civil Government. Read more about Henry David Thoreau at: www.HarvardSquareLibrary.org – the digital library of Unitarian Universalism.
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1759 – Robert Burns, the beloved national poet of Scotland and composer of “Auld Lang Syne,” was born in Ayrshire, Scotland. He published several satires of orthodox revivalism for which he is celebrated by Unitarians of Scotland as a religious forbearer. Though he was not formally connected with Unitarianism, there is no doubt about his Unitarian beliefs.
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1556 The second Synod of the Reformed Brethren (Socinians) in Poland adopted Unitarian positions and rejected the Nicene and Athanasian creeds.
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1887 William Greenleaf Eliot, Jr., founder of the first Unitarian church west of the Mississippi River, died at age 75. In addition to serving as the church’s minster from 1834-1887, he was the founder of Washington University in St. Louis. Read more about William Greenleaf Eliot, Jr. at: www.HarvardSquareLibrary.org – the digital library of Unitarian Universalism
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1556 Peter Giezek declared his Unitarianism at the Calvinist synod in Poland and went on to form the first Unitarian organization in Europe.
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