Background
Sunderland, Jabez Thomas was born on February 11, 1842 in Yorkshire, England. Son of Thomas and Sarah (Broadhead) Sunderland.
Sunderland, Jabez Thomas was born on February 11, 1842 in Yorkshire, England. Son of Thomas and Sarah (Broadhead) Sunderland.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Chicago, 1867, Master of Arts, 1869. Bachelor of Divinity, Baptist Union Theological Seminary, Illinois, 1870. Doctor of Divinity, Tufts College, Massachusetts, 1914.
Ordained Baptist ministry, 1870. Pastor Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1871-1872, Northfield Massachusetts (Unitarian church), 1872-1876, Chicago, 1876-1878, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1878-1898, Oakland, California, 1898-1899. London, England., 1900-1901, Toronto, Canada, 1901-1907, Hartford, Connecticut, 1907-1911, Ottawa, Canada, 1912-1913, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1911-1927.
General secretary Western Unitarian Conference and western agent American Unitarian Association, 1885-1886.
Went to India, 1895-1896, on commission from British Unitarian Association, to study and report upon the educational, social, and religious conditions of the Indian people. Non-resident lecturer on sociology and the religion of India in theological schools, at Meadville, Pennsylvania, and Canton, New New York
Billings lecturer of America Unitarian Association to Japan, China, Philippine Islands, Ceylon and India, 1913-1914. President All-India Theistic Conference, 1913-1914.
Editor of the Unitarian Monthly, 1886-1895.
President India Home Rule League of America, and editor of Young India (monthly, New York), 1919-1920. Author: A Rational Faith, 1878. What Is the Bible?, 1878.
The Liberal Ministry, 1889.
Home Travel in Bible Lands, 1894. The Origin and Growth of the Bible, 1894.
A College Town Pulpit, 1895. Liberal Religion in India, 1896.
A Pacific Coast Pulpit, 1898.
Travel and Life in Palestine, 1900. James Martineau, 1905. The Causes of Famine in India, 1906.
The Bible and Bible Country, 1900.
Oh, to Be Rich and Young, 1910. The Orient and Liberal Religion, 1914.
Rising Japan, 1917. Channing, 1920. Because Men Are Not Stones, 1923.
India, America and World-Brotherhood, 1924 (published in Madras, India).
Evolution and Religion, 1925. India in Bondage, 1928, also French and Japanese edits, 1933. The Truth About India, 1930.
Eminent Americans Whom India Should Know, 1933.
Address: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Married Eliza J. Read, December 7, 1871. Children: Gertrude, Edson R., Florence.