William Channing Gannett

William Channing Gannett

(March 13, 1840 - December 15, 1923)

2nd Minister of Unity Church: 1877 - 1883

The Story of Our Church [Unity] by William Channing Gannett, 1879  with note by Joan Lovrian

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Biographies

• Gannett, William Channing (1840-1923)

• William Channing Gannett, Western New York Suffragists

• William Channing Gannett: Early Life and Work and His Role in the Creedal Issue by Roy Phillips, isuu.com, retrieved 9.2015

• “Three Years Among the Freedmen: William C. Gannett and the Port Royal Experiment” by William H. Pease, The Journal of Negro History 42, no. 2 (April 1957): 98-117. First page and reference here: https://doi.org/10.2307/2715686

• William Channing Gannett & Jenkin Lloyd Jones. The Wright Library.

Letters

• Letters from Port Royal: Written at the Time of the Civil War edited by Elizabeth Ware Pearson. (Boston, 1906).  Letters to and from W.C.G. are included in this work. 

Works

• Ezra Stiles Gannett, Unitarian Minister in Boston, 1824-1871, Roberts Bros., 1875

• A Year of Miracle: A Poem in Four Sermons, 1881. The dedication reads: "In, To, For Unity Church" 

• The Faith That Makes Faithful, with Jenkin Lloyd Jones, C.H. Kerr & Co., 1887 

• The House Beautiful*, James West Co., 1895

• A Hundred Years of the Unitarian Movement in America, 1815-1915

• Of making one's self beautiful, J. Pott & Co., 1899

• Things Commonly Believed Among Us, Western Unitarian Conference, 1887

• Unity Hymns and Chorals with Service Elements (Revised and Enlarged), Unity Publishing Co., 1913

• Culture Without College, James West Co., 1895

• A Recipe for Good Cheer, James Pott & Co., 1899

• Little Child at the Breakfast Table*,1915 

• The Poetic Element in the Rising Faith, 1903 (Delivered at the Ministers Conference, Berry Street Essay). 

*In the Unity Library Historical Collection

The Online Books Page: Online Books by William C. Gannett(Gannett, William C., 1840-1923)

Hymns

• William Channing Gannett (Cyberhymnal)

Archives

WILLIAM CHANNING GANNETT PAPERS Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation,River Campus Library, University of Rochester, Date range: 1841-1953
Location: A.G18, Size: 75 boxes (752 folders, 105 volumes, 141 magazines)

Ezra Stiles Gannett papers, Massachusetts Historical Society. The Ezra Stiles Gannett papers consist of the personal and religious papers [many sermons] of Ezra Stiles Gannett, assistant and later pastor of the Federal (later Arlington) Street Church, 1824-1871, and a leader in the Unitarian movement. The collection includes loose papers, primarily the correspondence of Ezra Stiles Gannett and his son William Channing Gannett;...

Family

• Father: Ezra Stiles Gannett, one of the founders of the American Unitarian Association

• Mother: Anna Tilden

• Sister: Kate Gannett Wells

• Spouse: Mary Thorn Lewis, married 1887

• Named after and christened by: William Ellery Channing

Other Not Online

Other Works in the Unity Library Historical Collection

• A wicket-gate to the Bible

• Green Pastures and Still Waters with Other Poems 

• Wrestling and Blessing 

• The Childhood of Jesus series

• How We Got the Temperance Society in the Church: A Story of What Might Be (Unity Short Tracts, No. 16)

• Seven studies of temperance: Outlines and notes for classes with temperance service and songs 

• The New Orthodoxy, The New Unitarianism, and the New Universalism, Should They be Three or One?

Biographies 

• William Channing Gannett (1840-1923)  from Heralds of a Liberal Faith Vol IV, Harvard Square Library

Advertisement for Gannett House, the former parish house for the First Unitarian Church of Rochester and the location of the Boys' Evening Home around 1900. The advertisement appeared in The Common Good magazine.

Photo: Courtesy of Harvard Square Library.

Advertisement for Gannett House, the former parish house for the First Unitarian Church of Rochester and the location of the Boys' Evening Home around 1900. The advertisement appeared in The Common Good magazine.