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Orville Dewey was born on March 28, 1794; a son of Silas and Polly (Root) Dewey of Sheffield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Orville Dewey was born on March 28, 1794; a son of Silas and Polly (Root) Dewey of Sheffield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States.
His boyhood was spent on his father’s farm and at the district school. At sixteen he began to prepare for college under William H. Maynard and Elisha Lee of Sheffield, entered Williams College in the third term of sophomore year, and graduated with the valedictory in 1814.
Harvard gave him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1839.
The next two years were spent in teaching at Sheffield and in business in New York. He graduated from Andover Seminary in 1819, spent eight months as agent for the American Education Society, and a year as pastor of the Congregational church at Gloucester, Massachusetts. While a student at Andover he began to question the doctrine of the Trinity and during his Gloucester pastorate he became a Unitarian. His Unitarian pastorates were as follows: from 1821 to 1823 he was associated with Dr. Channing at the Federal Street Church in Boston; from 1823 to 1833, First Church, New Bedford; from 1835 to 1848, Second Congregational Church (later Church of the Messiah), New York; from 1857 to 1861, New South Church, Church Green, Boston. He supplied Unitarian churches two winters each in Washington and in Albany and preached and lectured extensively. After his retirement from his New York pastorate, he lived mostly at his Sheffield home, where he died.
He was the fourth president of the American Unitarian Association, serving from 1845 to 1847. He made several trips to Europe, and spent nearly two years there with his family, October 1841- August 1843. His Lowell lectures in 1851 on “The Problem of Human Destiny” (published under the same title in 1864) were given in various places and were afterward repeated in Boston at Lowell’s request. He gave a second Lowell course in 1855 on the “Education of the Human Race. ” His publications include: Discourses on Various Subjects (1835); The Old World and the New (1836), the fruit of his first trip to Europe; The Works of Orville Dewey (1844, republished in 3 volumes, 1847) and numerous sermons and addresses.
He was deeply interested in social questions, and was a founder of the Employment Society which first put poor relief in that city on an organized basis.
After an attack of measles while in college, his eyesight was always defective and his work was several times interrupted by ill health.
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Dewey was an opponent both of slavery and of abolitionism, thus subjecting himself to criticism in both North and South.
Dewey had a natural eloquence and preached on the great subjects with extraordinary insight and ability. He was an unusual interpreter of religious life, and has been characterized as “a man of unique power in the pulpit . .. in whom thought was more intimately blended with emotion than in any other great preacher we can bring to mind”. He retained his youthful spirit to an advanced age, and was a vivacious and charming companion.
On December 26, 1820 Dewey married Louisa Farnham of Boston.