Notes and Illustrations of the Parables of the New-Testament, Arranged According to the Time in Which They Were Spoken
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Thomas Whittemore was an American universalist clergyman, editor, author, and financier.
Background
Thomas Whittemore was born on January 1, 1800 in Boston, Massachussets, the fourth child of Joseph and Comfort (Quiner) Whittemore, and a descendant of Thomas Whittemore who emigrated from England to Charlestown before 1645. As a boy he seems to have been more than ordinarily self-willed.
Education
He attended the public schools of Charlestown, Massachussets, but the necessitous condition of his family forced him to leave school before reaching his teens.
Career
He was apprenticed to three different trades and twice ran away. In his twentieth year he came under the spell of the popular Universalist preacher, the Rev. Hosea Ballou. When in December 1820 he was given a chance to preach before the Universalist congregation in Roxbury, Massachussets, he acquitted himself very creditably, and at the close of his apprenticeship with a Boston firm of boot and shoe makers in 1821, Ballou invited him to become a member of his family for a year to prepare for the ministry. His studies were frequently interrupted by invitations to preach in Universalist churches. In June 1821 he was asked to become minister of the church in Milford, Massachussets, and was ordained there on June 13. A year later he accepted the pastorate of a church in Cambridgeport, Massachussets (later part of Cambridge), where he quickly became a conspicuous figure among the group of forceful Universalist preachers and writers of the first half of the nineteenth century. In 1828 he and Russell Streeter purchased the semi-monthly Universalist Magazine and issued it as a weekly under the title of the Trumpet and Universalist Magazine. Streeter shortly sold his share to Whittemore, who became the sole owner and editor. The venture turned out to be extremely profitable, and Whittemore continued as editor of the magazine for thirty-three years. After 1828 books and pamphlets came thick and fast from his pen. Among his publications were The Modern History of Universalism (1830), Notes and Illustrations of the Parables of the New Testament (1832), a commentary on the Revelations, which reveals a curious streak of mysticism in his makeup, and The Plain Guide to Universalism (1840). There was a lyrical strain in him which expressed itself in musical compositions and the compilation of a series of hymn books: Songs of Zion (1837), containing many tunes from his pen, The Gospel Harmonist (1841), two books of Conference Hymns (1842 - 43), and the Sunday School Choir (1844). Later in life he turned to biography and produced The Memoir of Walter Balfour (1852), The Life of Rev. Hosea Ballou, and The Early Days of Thomas Whittemore, an Autobiography (1859). He was not less busy in the public life of the town. He was elected in 1830 to the state legislature and was reëlected to that post for several years. There he expressed his unrelenting opposition to compulsory support of religion. He served his town also as selectman for a considerable time. During the years 1833 to 1845 he gave his services as lecturer in the cause of temperance. In 1840 he undertook a radically different line of activity. The bank in Cambridge having fallen into difficulties, he was chosen first as director of the institution and then president, and succeeded in rescuing it from its trouble. Nine years later (1849) he was made president of the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad, which was involved in deep financial distress. He completed the branch lines, settled the lawsuits pending against the road, and successfully freed it from debt. He died in Cambridge, Massachussets, while busy revising and enlarging his Modern History of Universalism.