Samuel McChord Crothers, (1857-1927)
4th Minister of Unity Church: 1886 - 1894
Biography
Address in Memory of Samuel McChord Crothers by Frederick M. Eliot, 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
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
By the Christmas Fire, 1908
Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Autocrat and His Fellow-boarders. With Selected Poems,1909
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
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