Background
Channing, William Henry was born on May 25, 1810 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Francis Dana and Susan (Higginson) Channing.
Channing, William Henry was born on May 25, 1810 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Francis Dana and Susan (Higginson) Channing.
Graduated from Harvard, 1829, Harvard Divinity School, 1833.
Ordained to ministry Unitarian Church, 1839. Editor Western Messenger (organ of Unitarianism in West), Cincinnati, 1839-1841. Editor The Present (Socialist organ), 1843-1844.
Transcendentalist; lived at Brook Farm, 1845. Original member, minister religious union of associationists, Boston, 1847-1850. Editor The Spirit of the Age, 1849.
Went to England; succeeded James Martineau as minister Hope Street Unitarian Chapel Liverpool, England, 1857. Returned to American, 1861. Pastor Unitarian Society, Washington, District of Columbia, 1861-1863.
Chaplain United States House of Representatives, 1863-1865. Also served in various army camps, hospitals during Civil War. Returned to England 1866.
Author: (translated) Jouffroy’s Introduction to Ethics, 1841. The Gospel of Today, 1847. The Life of William Ellery Channing (his uncle), 3 vols., 1848.
(with Ralph Waldo Emerson and J.F. Clarke) Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, 2 vols. 1852; Lessons from the Life of Theodore Parker, 1860.
Married Julia Allen, December 1836.