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His father was a prosperous merchant and his mother a daughter of a Loyalist exile.
Ellis attended several preparatory schools, including the Boston Latin School and the Round Hill School at Northampton, and graduated from Harvard in 1833.
His connection with Harvard College was always close.
He then went to the Divinity School, and after graduation in 1836 remained in Boston for two years, sailing on May 8, 1838, for an extended European trip from which he returned in the following year.
He was the first to hold the new chair of systematic theology in the Divinity School, delivering his inaugural address July 14, 1857, and serving until 1863.
In 1869 he resigned his pastorate and moved from Charlestown to Boston, where he lived a quiet, bookish life until his death.
He compiled a hymn-book in 1845, and in 1844, 1845, and 1847 respectively, he wrote the lives of John Mason, Anne Hutchinson, and William Penn for Sparks's Library of American Biography.
In 1857 he published A Half Century of the Unitarian Controversy and in 1864 delivered a course of lectures on "The Evidences of Christianity" at the Lowell Institute.
In January 1869 he delivered two lectures before the Lowell Institute subsequently published under the title: I.
The Aims and Purposes of the Founders of Massachusetts.
II.
Their Treatment of Intruders and Dissentients (1869).
In these lectures he upheld the Puritans in their intolerance.
This last series appeared in book form in 1882.
In 1888 he published The Puritan Age and Rule in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1685.
He contributed several chapters to Winsor's Memorial History of Boston (1880 - 01) and to the Narrative and Critical History of America (1884 - 89); and several articles to the ninth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica; wrote a History of the Massachusetts General Hospital (1872), continuing the work of Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch; the History of the Battle of Bunker's Hill (1875); memoirs, among others, of Luther V. Bell, Jared Sparks, Jacob Bigelow, and Nathaniel Thayer.
He was a constant contributor to the New York Review, the North American Review, and the Atlantic Monthly, in the last of which he published (October 1894) his "Retrospect of an Octogenarian. "
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On March 11, 1840, he was ordained and became pastor of the Harvard Unitarian Church in Charlestown, where he remained for twenty-nine years.
In his will he left his house and $30, 000 to the Society and $10, 000 to the American Antiquarian Society.
On April 15, 1840, he married Elizabeth Bruce Eager, daughter of William Eager of Boston. She bore him one son and died in 1842.
On October 22, 1859, he married, as his second wife, Lucretia Goddard Gould, who died July 6, 1869.
