Ewer, Ferdinand Cartwright (22 May 1826–10 October 1883), journalist and Anglo-Catholic clergyman, was born in Nantucket, Rhode Island, the son of Peter Folger Ewer, a shipowner and oil merchant, and his second wife, Mary Cartwright. During Ewer’s childhood, the family moved from Nantucket to Providence, Rhode Island, and then to New York City, finally returning to Nantucket in 1839. Throughout these years, the Ewers were financially well off, but the family fortune declined during Ewer’s years at Harvard (1845–1848). As a result, he experienced financial difficulties while in school and graduated in debt....
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Ewer, Ferdinand Cartwright (1826-1883), journalist and Anglo-Catholic clergyman
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Henry, Caleb Sprague (1804-1884), educator, pastor, and author
Steven L. Porter
Henry, Caleb Sprague (02 August 1804–09 March 1884), educator, pastor, and author, was born in Rutland, Massachusetts, the son of Silas Henry and Dorothy Pierce. Henry received his A.B. from Dartmouth in 1825 and later studied at Andover Theological Seminary. At twenty-four years of age, Henry was ordained a pastor in the Congregational denomination and served at churches in Greenfield, Mississippi (1829–1831), and in West Hartford, Connecticut (1833–1835). Henry was a proponent of the peace movement and in 1834 wrote the pamphlet ...
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Seabury, Samuel (1801-1872), Episcopal clergyman and journalist
Robert Bruce Mullin
Seabury, Samuel (09 June 1801–10 October 1872), Episcopal clergyman and journalist, was born in New London, Connecticut, the son of Charles Seabury, a cleric, and Anne Saltonstall. The family moved to Setauket, Long Island, in 1814. Seabury’s family, a long, established line of clerics, included a grandfather (and namesake) who was the first bishop of the Episcopal church in America. Charles Seabury, however, was a modest and uninspiring cleric, and his reduced economic circumstances markedly affected the education and early career of his son. Seabury’s early formal education was limited to various village schools, and rather than being permitted to study the classical languages as a preparation for college, he was instead apprenticed to a furniture maker in New York City. This was a traumatic experience for Seabury, a “bleeding of self-pride,” which he movingly recalled in his personal narrative written in 1831. His narrative includes descriptions of apprentice life and working-class religion and mores as seen through the eyes of a genteelly reared young man. His apprenticeship proved a failure, and he instead dedicated himself to the task of self-education, particularly in the classical languages. He received an honorary M.A. from Columbia College in 1826. Seabury was married three times: to Lydia Huntington Bill (1829–1834); to Hannah Amelia Jones (1835–1852); and to Mary Anna Jones (1854–1872). Altogether he had six children....
