Joseph Henry Allen
Joseph Henry Allen was a Unitarian clergyman, editor and scholar.
Biography
He was born in Northborough, Massachusetts, the son of Joseph Allen and Lucy Clark. He prepared for college at a school run by his father in Northborough. He graduated at Harvard College, and then at the Divinity School in 1843. He was pastor at the First Congregational Society in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, the Unitarian church in Washington, D.C., and a church in Bangor, Maine. In 1857 he departed from full-time ministry and took up teaching and editing Unitarian periodicals. He lectured at Harvard for four years.He died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts on March 20, 1898.
Works
- Ten Discourses on Orthodoxy
- Hebrew Men and Times,
- Manual Latin Grammar
- A Latin Reader
- A Latin Primer
- Our Liberal Movement in Theology, chiefly as Shown in Recollections of the History of Unitarianism in New England
- Christian History in its Three Great Periods, Early Christianity, The Middle Age, Modern Phases
- Historical Sketch of the Unitarian Movement since the Reformation,.