Henry Martyn Dexter

Henry Martyn Dexter was an American Congregational clergyman and author.

Biography

Henry Marty Dexter was born in Plympton, Massachusetts. He graduated at Yale in 1840 and at the Andover Theological Seminary in 1844; was pastor of a Congregational church in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1844–1849, and of the Berkeley Street Congregational church, Boston, in 1849–1867; was an editor of the Congregationalist in 1851–1866, of the Congregational Quarterly in 1859–1866, and of the Congregationalist, with which the Recorder was merged, from 1867 until his death. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1869.
He was an authority on the history of Congregationalism and was lecturer on that subject at the Andover Theological Seminary in 1877–1880.
Dexter died at his home in New Bedford, Massachusetts on November 13, 1890. He left his fine library on the Puritans in America to Yale University.