Charles Fletcher Dole (1845–1927) was a Unitarian minister, speaker, and writer in the

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section of

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, and Chairman of the Association to Abolish War. He authored a substantial number of books on

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, and

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Life

Dole was born May 17, 1845 in

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. He was the son of Reverend Nathan Dole (1811–1855) and Caroline Fletcher Dole (1817–1914) and the older brother of

Nathan Haskell Dole Nathan Haskell Dole (August 31, 1852 – May 9, 1935) was an American editor, translator, and author. A writer and journalist in Philadelphia, New York City, New York, and Boston, Massachusetts, Boston, he translated many of the works of Leo Tol ...

(1852–1935). He received a Bachelor of Arts from

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in 1868 and a Masters of Arts in 1870. He graduated from Andover Theology Seminary in 1872 and married Frances Drummond of

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, on March 4, 1873. He was a professor of Greek at the

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in 1873, a minister at Plymouth Church in

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, from 1874 to 1876. He was a member of the American Peace Society, the Anti-Imperialist League, 20th Century, Appalachian, etc. He got a Doctorate in Divinity from

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in 1906. Dole became an influential Unitarian minister and began in 1876 as the associate and took over as the settled minister in 1880 of the First Congregational Society of Jamaica Plain - Unitarian. He served for forty years until 1916, when he was named minister emeritus. Church records, Jamaica Plain. His son

James Drummond Dole James Drummond Dole (September 27, 1877 – May 20, 1958), also known as the "Pineapple King", was an American industrialist who developed the pineapple industry in Hawaii. He established the Hawaiian Pineapple Company (HAPCO) which was later r ...

moved to the

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in 1899 to establish a

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-growing empire, which would eventually become the

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. At first, he lived with cousin

Sanford Ballard Dole Sanford Ballard Dole (April 23, 1844 – June 9, 1926) was a lawyer and jurist from the Hawaiian Islands. He lived through the periods when Hawaii was a kingdom, protectorate, republic, and territory. A descendant of the American missionary ...

(1844–1926), who was the territorial governor. Dole himself moved to Hawaii in 1909, where he was welcomed by the conservative community despite his progressive views, and died there in 1927.

Publications

* ''The Citizen and the Neighbor'' (1884) * ''Early Hebrew Stories'' (1886) * ''Jesus and the Men About Him'' (1888) * ''A Hand-book of Temperance'' (1888) * ''The American Citizen'' (1892) * * ''A Catechism of Liberal Faith'' (1895) * ''The Golden Rule in Business'' (1896) * * * * * * ''The Theology of Civilization'' (1899) * ''The Problem of Duty: A Study of the Philosophy of Conduct'' (1900) * ''The Religion of a Gentleman'' (1900) * ''Noble Womanhood'' (1900) * ''The Smoke and the Flame: A Study in the Development of Religion'' (1902) * ''From Agnosticism to Theism'' (1903) * ''The Theology of Civilization'' (1905) * ''The Spirit of Democracy'' (1906) * ''The Hope of Immortality: Our Reasons for it'' (1908, the

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for 1906) * ''What we know about Jesus'' (1908) * ''The Ethics of Progress'' (1909) * ''The Coming Religion'' (1910) * ''The Burden of Poverty'' (1912) * ''The Right and Wrong of the Monroe Doctrine'' (1912) * ''The New American Citizen: The Essentials of Civics and Economics'' (1918) * ''A Religion for the New Day'' (1920) * ''Economics for Upper Grades'' (1920) * ''The Victorious Goodness: An Epic of Spiritual Journey'' (1927) *

References

External links

* * 1845 births 1927 deaths American Unitarians Andover Theological Seminary alumni Dole family Harvard University alumni People from Brewer, Maine People from Jamaica Plain Writers from Boston Writers from Hawaii Writers from Maine {{US-Christian-clergy-stub