About
A nineteenth-century American fiction writer, he is best known for novels such as Margaret; Richard Edney and the Governor's Family; and The White Hills. Also a Unitarian minister, he published many of his sermons.
Before Fame
After graduating from Hopkins Academy (Hadley, Massachusetts) and Yale College, he entered Harvard Divinity School.
Trivia
He served as the pastor of a church in Augusta, Maine.
Family Life
He grew up in Westhampton, Massachusetts. He married Jane Elizabeth Williams in 1841.
Associated With
He traveled to Concord, Massachusetts to meet Ralph Waldo Emerson after reading Emerson's "Epic Poetry" essay.
