birth_date: 1820-08-21 00:00:00
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name: Joseph Henry Allen
about: Joseph Henry Allen was a Unitarian clergyman, editor and scholar. 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 (1843), the Unitarian church in Washington, D.C. (1847), and a church in Bangor, Maine (1850). In 1857 he departed from full-time ministry and took up teaching (in Jamaica Plain, Northborough and West Newton) and editing Unitarian periodicals (Christian Examiner, 1863-5; Unitarian Review, 1887-1891). He lectured at Harvard for four years (1887-1891). He died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
death_date: 1898-03-20 00:00:00