Background
Frothingham, Nathaniel Langdon was born on July 23, 1793 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Ebenezer and Joanna (Langdon) Frothingham.
Frothingham, Nathaniel Langdon was born on July 23, 1793 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Ebenezer and Joanna (Langdon) Frothingham.
Graduated from Harvard, 1811.
Instructor rhetoric Harvard, 1812. Ordained to ministry Unitarian Church. Pastor 1st Church of Boston, 1815-1850, pastor emeritus, 1850.
Author: Deism or Christianity, 1845.
Sermons in the Order of a Twelve-month, 1852. Metrical Pieces, Translated and Original, 1855.
Metrical Pieces, Participant Two, 1870. Also hymns, including: O God, Whose Presence Glows in All (most famous), We Meditate the Day, O Lord of Life and Truth and Grace.
Married Ann Gorham Brooks, 1818, 1 son.