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Henry Martyn Field born at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, was a son of David Dudley and Submit (Dickinson ) Field and a descendant of Zechariah Field who emigrated to Boston about 1629 and later settled in Connecticut.
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Title: Gibraltar. (A story of fortress and siege.) ... Illustrated. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Field, Henry Martyn; 1889 viii. 139 p. ; 8º. 10160.ee.25.
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Henry Martyn Field born at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, was a son of David Dudley and Submit (Dickinson ) Field and a descendant of Zechariah Field who emigrated to Boston about 1629 and later settled in Connecticut.
He entered Williams College at the age of twelve and at fourteen delivered a temperance address in the church at Tyringham.
He was graduated in 1838 and several months later entered the Theological Seminary at East Windsor, Conn.
In 1840 he was licensed to preach and the following year graduated from the Seminary, delivering an oration on “The Ministry favorable to the Highest Development of Mind. ” When his brother, David Dudley, offered to advance him money for study in Germany, his father warned him to eschew German rationalism and he went to New Haven for a year. That he was called to St. Louis in 1842 as pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church and thus escaped settling in New England, Field always regarded as a special providence.
After five years he resigned and went to Europe. He visited Ireland in the year of the great famine. While living in Paris he witnessed the revolution of 1848.
Having returned to New York, he sought out the descendants of the Irish patriots living in that city and in 1851 published a popular history, The Irish Confederates and the Rebellion of 1798.
In 1851 he became pastor of a Congregational church in West Springfield, Massachusetts. He resigned in 1854, moved to New York, and bought an interest in the Evangelist, of which he later became sole owner and editor.
He published in 1867 the History of the Atlantic Telegraph of which his brother, Cyrus West, had been a chief promoter. In 1875-76 Field made an extended tour of the world seeking- to forget the recent death of his wife.
He described this tour in two volumes published in 1877: From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn and From Egypt to Japan. A journey to the East in 1882 and a tour of the Mediterranean in 1886-87 each resulted in the publication of three volumes.
His travel books, written in a discursive and faintly ecstatic style, were the delight of a large public which yearned for amusement and edification. Field was a liberal and progressive influence within the Presbyterian Church.
He long advocated a revision of the Westminster Confession of Faith. He was one of the first to make a study of the reconstruction problems of the South for himself.
In 1888 he entered a long public discussion with Robert G. Ingersoll in an effort to persuade him of the sublimity of the idea of God, but the latter only congratulated him upon having “bidden farewell to the Presbyterian church” (Field-Inger- soil Discussion, 1888, pp. 6, 61).
Field had sometimes used the Evangelist to exploit the distinguished family to which he belonged. In 1880 he issued privately a Record of the Family of the Late Reverend David Dudley Field.
He wrote biographies of his brothers David Dudley and Cyrus West and had planned a volume on his brother Stephen Johnson, a justice of the United States Supreme Court.
When in the evening of his life he contemplated the past, his melancholy was tinged with regret that his brothers had been born to great deeds and he but to celebrate them.
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That he was called to St. Louis in 1842 as pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church and thus escaped settling in New England, Field always regarded as a special providence.
He went to Italy and observed Roman Catholicism; he felt sad to think that it was all a splendid pageant, but no religion (Good and Bad in the Roman Catholic Church, 1849, p. 5).
In the same year he became pastor of a Congregational church in West Springfield, Mass.
He resigned in 1854, moved to New York, and bought an interest in the Evangelist, of which he later became sole owner and editor.
Field was a liberal and progressive influence within the Presbyterian Church.
In May 1851 Field married Laure Desportes who after having been seriously involved in the Choiseul-Praslin tragedy (see London Times, Sept. 2-4, 1847) had left Paris and settled in New York.