Background
Sears, Edmund Hamilton was born on April 6, 1810 in Sandisfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Joseph and Lucy (Sears) Smith.
Sears, Edmund Hamilton was born on April 6, 1810 in Sandisfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Joseph and Lucy (Sears) Smith.
Graduate Union College, Schenectady, New York, 1834. Honorary Doctor of Divinity, 1871. Graduated from Harvard Divinity School, 1837.
Missionary, American Unitarian Association, Toledo, O., 1837-1839. Ordained to ministry Unitarian Church, Wayland, Massachusetts, 1839. Pastor, Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1840-1847, Wayland, 1848-1865, Weston, Massachusetts, 1866-1876.
An editor Monthly Religious Magazine, 1859-1871.
Wrote hymns Calm on the Listening Ear of Night, lieutenant Came upon a Midnight Clear. Author: Regeneration, 1853.
Pictures of the Olden Times as Shown in the Fortunes of A family of Pilgrims, 1857. Genealogies and Biographical Sketches of the Ancestry and Descendants of Richard Sears, 1857.
Athanasia: or Foregleams of Immortality, 1858.
The Fourth Gospel, the Heart of Christ (most notable book), 1872.
Married Ellen Bacon, November 7, 1839, 4 children.