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Gilbert Haven was born on September 19, 1821, in Malden, Massachusetts, United States, the fifth of the ten children of Gilbert and Hannah (Burrill) Haven, of old New England stock. He was a cousin of Erastus Otis Haven.
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Gilbert Haven was born on September 19, 1821, in Malden, Massachusetts, United States, the fifth of the ten children of Gilbert and Hannah (Burrill) Haven, of old New England stock. He was a cousin of Erastus Otis Haven.
Gilbert attended Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Massachusetts, where he experienced a Methodist conversion; and Wesleyan University, where he was noted for his scholarship, his genial personality, his anti-slavery opinions, and his gift for leadership.
After five years in Amenia Seminary, where Gilbert Haven taught Greek and German and was for three years principal, he entered the Methodist Episcopal ministry in the New England Conference in 1851. During his early pastorate in Massachusetts he distinguished himself by his interest in public affairs, especially the moral questions that were involved in the political issues of the time. His sermons, and notably his articles in the religious and secular press, were vigorous expressions of fiery convictions on slavery, temperance, et cetera. At Lincoln’s first call for troops he volunteered and was commissioned chaplain of the 8th Massachusetts on April 30, 1861.
After a year in Europe (1862) Haven returned to the ministry in Boston. He was now bent on securing for the freedmen the full fruits of emancipation. He resisted the wish of the bishops to send him South as a missionary because they limited his field to the blacks.
From 1867 to 1872 as editor of Zion’s Herald, the Boston Methodist weekly, Haven was a powerful ally of Charles Sumner and the radical Republicans, as well as a strong advocate of prohibition, woman’s suffrage, and lay representation. He compelled the nation to take notice of him, while his own church echoed with his sayings - "Havenisms. ” In 1868 he was a member of the General Conference and mentioned for the episcopacy. In 1872 he was elected, to the dismay of conservatives and the rapturous delight of the negroes and radicals.
His residence was fixed in Atlanta, Georgia. Socially ostracized and threatened with violence because he practised the racial equality which he preached, he energetically pressed the freedmen’s claims, gave his own money and solicited gifts to found schools and colleges for them, and enlisted Northern college graduates to come South and teach the former slaves and their children. By his articles, sermons, and lectures he kept the North informed with regard to the Southern policy of repression, and fearlessly denounced the secret organizations which “murdered people for their opinions. ”
Haven visited Mexico in 1873 with the Rev. William Butler, and cooperated with him in planting Methodism in the capital. In 1876 he visited the Methodist missions in Liberia, where he contracted the African malaria which tormented him ever after. He finally succumbed on January 3, 1880, in Malden, Massachusetts.
As a writer he was journalistic rather than literary. His publications were: The Pilgrim’s Wallet (1866), National Sermons (1869); Father Taylor, the Sailor Preacher ( 1872), with Thomas Russell; Our Next Door Neighbor: A Winter in Mexico (1875); Christus Consolator, with a preface and notes by his son; and pamphlets including: Parkerism (1860), Lay Representation in the Methodist Episcopal Church (1864), Te Detnn Laudamus: the Cause and the Consequence of the Election of Abraham Lincoln (1860), The Uniter and Liberator of America (1865) - a memorial discourse on Lincoln, An Appeal to Our People for Our People (1875). Some years after his death there was published Heavenly Messenger (1890), which, it was alleged, was a communication from Haven through a spiritualist medium.
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Haven believed in the absolute equality of all persons, and if they are equal in the eyes of God, he held that civil society would have to recognize their equality under law and in practice. He was absolutely opposed to the practice of any type of racial separation in churches.
Haven was president of the Freedman's Aid Society.
Bishop Haven was of medium height, compactly built, with ruddy face and red hair. His voice was unattractive and his delivery forced, but he carried his hearers and his readers with him by the strength and warmth of his own convictions.
Haven was married to Mary Ingraham at Amenia, New York, in 1851.