Biography

• Address in Memory of Samuel McChord Crothers by Frederick M. Eliot, Harvard Square Library.

• Samuel McChord Crothers (Wikipedia)

• Samuel McChord Crothers, Harvard Square Library

Harvard Library: Biographical / Historical

Samuel McChord Crothers (1857-1927) graduated from Wittenberg College in 1873, the College of New Jersey (now Princeton) in 1874, and Union Theological Seminary in 1877. After completing his education, Crothers was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry. He continued in the Presbyterian ministry until he became disillusioned with the denomination and resigned his pastorate in 1881. In 1882, he converted to the Unitarian denomination and served parishes in Brattleboro, Vermont; St. Paul, Minnesota; and Cambridge, Massachusetts. His publications include: The Understanding Heart (1903); The Gentle Reader (1903); The Pardoner's Wallet (1905); By the Christmas Fire (1908); Among Friends (1910); Humanly Speaking (1912); Meditations on Votes for Women, etc. (1914); The Pleasures of an Absentee Landlord (1916); Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Autocrat and His Fellow-Boarders (1909); The Dame School of Experience (1920); Ralph Waldo Emerson: How to Know Him (1921); The Cheerful Giver (1923); and The Children of Dickens (1925).

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Photo at the MHS

• Reverend Samuel McChord Crothers, minister, Unity Church, St. Paul, Approximately 1890

Works

• Members of one body: six sermons, Unity Church, 1892

• Humanly Speaking, 1912

• The Convention of Books, 1911

• Among Friends, 1910

• A Literary Clinic*, 1917

• The pardoner's wallet, 1905

• The dame school of experience, 1920

• Pleasures of an absentee landlord, and other essays, 1916

• Miss Muffet's Christmas Party*, 1902

• By the Christmas Fire, 1908

• Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Autocrat and His Fellow-boarders. With Selected Poems,1909

• Ralph Waldo Emerson: how to know him*, 1921

Other

• Samuel McChord Crothers: Interpreter of Life* by Frederick May Eliot, Beacon Press, 1930

• The Children of Dickens* by Samuel McChord Crothers, 1925

* In the Unity Library Historical Collection

Harvard Library: Crothers, Samuel McChord, 1857-1927. Papers, 1825-1927.
COLLECTION Identifier: bMS 113

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