Background
Bellows was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
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clergyman President of the United States
Bellows was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
He graduated at Harvard College in 1832, and at the Harvard Divinity School in 1837, held a brief pastorate (1837–1838) at Mobile, Alabama, and in 1839 became pastor of the First Congregational (Unitarian) church in New York City (afterwards All Souls church), in charge of which he remained until his death.
Under his leadership, the USSC became the major source of spiritual and physical aid for wounded Union soldiers. Here Bellows acquired a high reputation as a pulpit orator and lyceum lecturer, and was a recognized leader in the Unitarian Church in America. Foreign many years after 1846 he edited The Christian Inquirer, a Unitarian weekly paper, and he was also for some time an editor of The Christian Examiner.
In 1849, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary member.
In 1857 he delivered a series of lectures in the Lowell Institute course, on The Treatment of Social Diseases. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he planned the United States Sanitary Commission, of which he was the only president (1861 to 1878).
He inspired the organization of chapters of the USSC in cities across the country, and the recruiting of thousands of volunteers to help Union soldiers. The organization raised millions of dollars for the war effort and to support soldiers and veterans.
He was the first president of the first Civil Service Reform Association organized in the United States (1877), and was an organizer of the Union League Club of New York and of the Century Association in New York City.
In 1865 he proposed and organized the national conference of Unitarian and other Christian churches, and from 1865 to 1880 was chairman of its council. He died in New York City on 30 January 1882. A bronze memorial tablet by Augustus Saint-Gaudens was unveiled in All Souls church in 1886.
Bellows acquired a high reputation as a pulpit orator and lyceum lecturer, and was a recognized leader in the Unitarian Church in America.
When he became the president of the United States Sanitary Commission, it began raise millions of dollars for the war effort and to support soldiers and veterans.
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