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  William H. Channing Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
William Henry Channing was the son of Francis Dana Channing and Susan Higginson Channing, and the nephew of the renowned Unitarian clergyman, William Ellery Channing.
William Henry's father died shortly after his birth, and he was raised by his mother.
In a letter dated 11/8/45, she encourages William to leave a copy of his papers in a safe place at the suggestion of Francis and encourages him to consider purchasing a life insurance policy for which she would pay.
www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/C/Channing.html   (278 words)

  
 W. Henry Channing
Channing committed himself to the transcendental philosophy as interpreted by the French School, for he possessed the swiftness of perception, the felicity of exposition, the sensibility to effects, the passion for clean statement and plausible generalization that distinguish the French genius from the German and the English.
Channing was early attracted to the bearings of the spiritual philosophy on the problems of society, the elevation of the working classes, the rescue of humanity from pauperism and crime.
Channing was in Washington preaching the gospel of liberty and loyalty, and laboring in the hospitals with unflagging devotion, thankful for an opportunity to put into work the enthusiasm of his passionate soul.
www.alcott.net /alcott/home/champions/Channing.html?index=2   (1393 words)

  
 Dudley Family - Descendants of Captain Roger Dudley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
William Channing Woodbridge was born in Dec 1794.
William Henry Woodbridge was born on 8 Mar 1804.
William Starkweather Woodbridge was born on 30 Jun 1845.
home.earthlink.net /~pbkingman4/Dudley/b62.htm   (761 words)

  
 William Ellery Channing
William Ellery Channing (April 7, 1780-October 2, 1842), minister of the Federal Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts, 1803-42, was a spokesman during the Unitarian controversy for those liberal—or Unitarian—churches within Massachusetts' Standing Order of churches.
William was born to a prosperous and distinguished family in Newport, Rhode Island, the third child of William and Lucy Ellery Channing.
Channing's last public address, in Lenox, Massachusetts, on August 1, 1842, celebrated the anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in the British West Indies and called for an end to slavery in the United States using similarly peaceful means.
www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/williamellerychanning.html   (4099 words)

  
 Henry Channing
It was during Channing's ministry that the Yellow Fever and Drought of 1798 came upon New London.
Channing's emergent Unitarianism revealed in the profession and covenant used at the reception of new members, which he substituted for the more evangelical one in use; one of the earliest formal statements of modern Unitarianism.
Channing is influential in the formulation of his nephew's views.
pages.cthome.net /firstchurchnl/history/channing.htm   (204 words)

  
 William Henry Channing
William Channing was educated under the auspices of his famous uncle, who largely met the expenses of it.
Channing, which was published in six volumes, in 1848, and was very popular.
In 1849 Channing conducted an associationist journal called "The Spirit of the Age." He joined with Emerson and J. Clarke, in 1850, in preparing a biography of Margaret Fuller; and he not only wrote a part of it, but he was the editor of the whole.
www.vcu.edu /engweb/transcendentalism/authors/whchanning.html   (914 words)

  
 William Ellery Channing
William Ellery Channing was born in 1780 in Newport, Rhode Island.
Despite the precarious finances of the large family, William Channing was able to continue in school and eventually enrolled at Harvard.
Although obviously a simplification of Channing's rejection of Calvinist doctrine, the story is indicative of the liberalism of his character.
xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/DETOC/religion/wecbio.html   (668 words)

  
 William Ellery Channing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Despite the precarious finances of the large family, William Channing was able to continue in school and eventually enrolled at Harvard.
In The Life of William Ellery Channing, D.D., William Henry Channing places his uncle's decision to enter the ministry in his senior year of college; he quoted, "In my Senior year,...the prevalence of infidelity, imported from France, led me to inquire into the evidences of Christianity, and then I found for what I was made.
Although obviously a simplification of Channing's rejection of Calvinist doctrine, the story is indicative of the liberalism of his character.
www.sullivan-county.com /identity/wecbio.htm   (669 words)

  
 lewis - lew32.htm
William Walter Alexander was born 6 Aug 1892 and died 1 Jun 1959.
William Claude Alexander was born 15 Mar 1904 and died 11 Dec 1958.
William Henry Alexander (Jordan Alexander, Daniel D. Alexander, Elizabeth Lewis, David) was born 25 Mar 1876 in SC.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~oldpend/lewis/lewg32.htm   (1849 words)

  
 William Henry Channing Summary
William Henry Channing (25 May 1810-23 December 1884), Unitarian minister and social reformer, was born into a well-to-do Boston family.
William Henry Channing, the nephew of Unitarian clergyman William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) and cousin of poet and Transcendentalist William Ellery Channing II (1817-1901), was a Unitarian minister, an author, an editor, and an idealistic reformer who...
Channing was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a prominent Unitarian family; his uncle William Ellery Channing (the elder) was the pre-eminent Unitarian t...
www.bookrags.com /William_Henry_Channing   (190 words)

  
 Our Ancestors of South Hampton Roads
She was married to Henry L. in 1919.
She was married to William PETTY in 1867.
Portsmouth - Age 87, of 170 Williams Street, the widow of WILLIS CLAUDE BELL and a native of Portsmouth, died Sunday, January 12, 1975 in a hospital.
digginforkin.tripod.com /SHRds/d46.html   (1808 words)

  
 Margaret Fuller: Freeing the Artist Within
Fuller was born in 1810 at Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, and during her youth, she was the companion and confidante of William Henry Channing, James Freeman Clarke, and Frederick Henry Hedge of the Harvard Class of 1829 and the Divinity School Class of 1833.
If, as Henry Adams said, chaos is the law of nature and order the dream of man, and if the imposition of order on a corner of chaos is the function—or the illusion—of art, Margaret Fuller, in Concord, would begin imposing discipline on herself to find order and a voice of her own.
The androgynous qualities of Channing’s poetry along with his theory that every man had the potential for intellectual and spiritual growth were applied directly by Fuller to her subject of woman in the nineteenth century.
www.critiquemagazine.com /article/fuller.html   (7956 words)

  
 PAL: William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Known as the "apostle of Unitarianism," Channing was a leading figure in the development of New England Transcendentalism and of organized attempts in the U.S. to eliminate slavery, drunkenness, poverty, and war.
Channing sympathized with the beliefs of several social and educational reform movements but did not believe that society could be improved by collective action.
Osborn, Neal J. "William Ellery Channing and The Red Badge of Courage." Bulletin of the New York Public Library 69 (1965): 182-96.
www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap4/channing_ellery.html   (559 words)

  
 John Channing Family
John Channing; an hospitable & generous Friend to me -- an immoveable Advocate for the Doctrines of Grace & particularly Justifica by the great Atonemt & the divine Righteousness of the Ld J.C. impouted to the penitent Believer.
William Channing served as Rhode Island's Attorney General for several terms during the Revolution.
(6)Walter Channing was born in Newport on September 3, 1757 and married Hannah Smith.
www3.edgenet.net /fcarpenter/chanfam.html   (629 words)

  
 To Live Content With Small Means - My Symphony by William Henry Channing
His father, Francis Dana Channing, was a brother of William Ellery Channing; his mother, Susan Higginson Channing, was a sister of Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
He was a good man, and a wise man. He was one of the most eloquent clergymen ever born in this country, and as sincere a friend of individual man and of the race in general as ever lived.
Channing, unlike many sayers of fine things, was personally as fine as the things he said.
www.transcendentalists.com /channing_symphony.htm   (762 words)

  
 PAL: William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)
Known as the "apostle of Unitarianism," Channing was a leading figure in the development of New England Transcendentalism and of organized attempts in the U.S. to eliminate slavery, drunkenness, poverty, and war.
During the next five years Channing issued several defenses of his position, especially "Unitarian Christianity," a sermon delivered at an ordination in Baltimore in 1819.
Channing sympathized with the beliefs of several social and educational reform movements but did not believe that society could be improved by collective action.
web.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap4/channing_ellery.html   (365 words)

  
 Harriot Stanton Blatch
Raised in a family where every member was expected to have an opinion and to voice it, she was trained from an early date in politics and social activism.
Somewhat adrift, she took the advice of William Lloyd Garrison to "seize the first bit of work that offers, if it is honest and honorable," and left for Europe as tutor to two wealthy American sisters.
Channing came to bless and name the child, though Harriot made it quite clear there was to be no formal baptism.
www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/harriotstantonblatch.html   (1595 words)

  
 alexander - ale21.htm
Louisa married Alfred Crayton Smith, son of William Newton Smith and Rebecca Alexander, on 24 Dec 1890.
William Henry Alexander (Jordan, Daniel D. Micajah, Daniel D) was born 25 Mar 1876 in SC.
William married Henrietta Etta Lusk, daughter of William Jasper Lusk and Harriett Pressley.
homepages.rootsweb.com /~oldpend2/alexander/aleg21.htm   (2077 words)

  
 TBK|UNITARIANISM IN AMERICA II Part 19
Bellows, Henry Whitney, 136, 146, 154, 175, 178-182, 187-189, 191, 196, 198, 205, 206, 215, 217, 218, 220, 222, 223, 232, 233, 335, 363, 409, 431, 449, 450.
Channing, William Henry, 155, 176, 200, 258, 359, 361, 365, 368, 369, 420, 428, 448.
Furness, William Henry, 114, 146, 244, 267, 361, 365, 394, 420.
www.truthbeknown.com /unitarianism_in_america_ii_19.html   (2534 words)

  
 MHS Colonial Society of Massachusetts Collection, 1710-1939 : Guide to the Collection
Correspondence includes letters between Mary Channing Eustis Wister and her sister Ella Eustis prior to Mary's marriage to William Rotch Wister, letters to William Rotch Wister from University of Pennsylvania classmates, and letters to William Rotch Wister from his brother John Wister, Jr., from Duncannon Iron Works.
Channing family papers include genealogical notes, William Channing, 1751-1793's, bar admission and appointment as a justice of the peace, Mr.
William Ellery Channing's passport to France and Holland, 1822, a letter to William H. Channing from Marianne G. Jackson regarding William Ellery Channing, clippings, engravings, including two of William Ellery Channing, and ephemera including bookplates and calling cards.
www.masshist.org /findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0033   (1140 words)

  
 Allen, William. Family correspondence: Guide.
William Allen of Rondout, N.Y. was the father of Julia Allen, the wife of William Henry Channing, Unitarian minister, and of Frances Allen, the first wife of Jared Sparks, Unitarian minister, historian, and president of Harvard.
Includes 82 letters, 1836-1853, from William Henry Channing to his wife Julia Allen Channing and 16 letters from Jared Sparks to William Allen and to Julia Allen Channing.
to Julia (Allen) Channing from an unidentified correspondent; 1835.
oasis.harvard.edu:10080 /oasis/deliver/~hou00695   (162 words)

  
 Thoreau as a Spiritual Guide
Channing had been the acknowledged leader of Unitarianism as we separated from the Calvinist Congregationalism of the previous generation.
Emerson referred to Channing as "our Bishop" and "the star of the American Church." In particular, the Transcendentalists seized on the notion of "self-culture" that Channing had articulated so convincingly in his sermons and lectures.
Channing wrote, "He who possess the divine powers of the soul is a great being, be his place what it may." Channing's emphasis on the spiritual capacity of the soul, and the importance of cultivating the seed of divinity within each individual, had tremendous appeal to the Transcendentalists.
ellsworthme.org /uuce/Sermons/thoreausg.html   (2097 words)

  
 William C. Gannett
William Channing Gannett, Unitarian clergyman and social reformer, was born on March 13, 1840 in Boston, Massachusetts.
His father was the Reverend Ezra Stiles Gannett, colleague and successor to William Ellery Channing, a famous American Unitarian minister, anti-slavery advocate and essayist.
Gannett, William C., Frank Lloyd Wright, John Arthur, The House Beautiful, Rohnert Park, Calif., Pomegranate, 1996 (This is a slightly modified reprint of an 1896 edition of 90 printed on a handpress by Wright and Winslow, designed around an essay by Gannett.
winningthevote.org /WCGannett.html   (1491 words)

  
 John Channing Family
John Channing; an hospitable & generous Friend to me -- an immoveable Advocate for the Doctrines of Grace & particularly Justifica by the great Atonemt & the divine Righteousness of the Ld J.C. impouted to the penitent Believer.
William Channing served as Rhode Island's Attorney General for several terms during the Revolution.
(6)Walter Channing was born in Newport on September 3, 1757 and married Hannah Smith.
www.prism.net /user/fcarpenter/chanfam.html   (629 words)

  
 Spirituality at All Souls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
William Henry Channing (minister from 1861-1865) suggested, and the Trustees approved, offering of the church building as a hospital.
Meanwhile, Channing also served as chaplain for one of the largest hospitals in Washington, D.C., and later as chaplain for the U.S. House of Representatives.
William Henry Channing demonstrated his interest in the freed African Americans by organizing the Freedman's Relief Union, of which he served as President.
www.all-souls.org /socialjustice/history.htm   (2339 words)

  
 FRANKLIN B. SANBORN PAPERS: FOLDER LISTING
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to poet William Ellery Channing (1818-1901), nephew of clergyman and abolitionist William Ellery Channing (1780-1842): ACS postcard from W. Harris (dated 12/4/1877); and ACS postcard from Harriet M. Irwin (postmarked 5/1/18?).
References include: preaching a sermon; Massachusetts governor Henry Joseph Gardner (1818-92); the progress of a magazine in which Clarke was collaborating (title not mentioned); the loss of a three year-old brother by William; sisters Lizzie and Annie attending the opera that night.
William Hummwell (sp?) in childbirth; a poetry recitation on Thursday evening by Mr.
www.library.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/fl/f229}1.htm   (2030 words)

  
 Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement
William Henry Channing (1810-1884) was the minister of the Unitarian Society in Rochester between 1852 and 1854.
Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Wendell Phillips were frequent guests in the Anthony home, and her interest naturally turned to the reform movements of the day.
The volumes are inscribed by Anthony to the minister of her church, William Channing Gannett, and his wife Mary Lewis Gannett.
www.lib.rochester.edu /rbk/women/women.htm   (7127 words)

  
 Reform
Henry Ward Beecher, for example, wrote that "those reforms which spring from the love of Christ are regulated, tempered, restrained."79 Most social reform of the early nineteenth century would take place between these poles of aggressive confrontation and cautious amelioration.
Ever since 1835, when William Henry Channing published Slavery, the Transcendentalist camp had publicly identified itself with the antislavery cause, at least in spirit.
In this essay, Channing argued that chattel slavery contravened Christian teaching and thwarted the Christian desire to knit humankind together in a divine fabric of spirituality and freedom.
xroads.virginia.edu /~MA95/finseth/reform.html   (3153 words)

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