Ezra Stiles Gannett (May 4, 1801–August 26, 1871) was a Unitarian minister in

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. The grandson of

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president

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, he was graduated from

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, and in 1824 he began working for the Federal Street Church; he remained with the congregation for the duration of his career. In 1861 he moved with his congregation to a new building, the

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. He was also associated with the

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. "He was a Unitarian of the more conservative type, an excellent preacher, and an ardent reformer." Reverend Gannett was killed in a train wreck a few miles north of Boston, Massachusetts on August 26, 1871. Gannett is buried in

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. He was the great-grandfather of author

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and the father of writer and social reformer

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;Works by Gannett:
Relation of the North to slavery
A discourse preached in the Federal Street Church. 1854. * A discourse delivered in the meetinghouse on Church Green: Boston, on Monday, March 20, 1854, at the funeral of the late Rev. Alexander Young, D.D., pastor of the New South Church. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Co., 1854.
National Commercial Convention
a discourse delivered in the Arlington-street Meeting-house, in Boston, on Sunday, Feb. 16, 1868. ;Works about Gannett: * Ezra Stiles Gannett, D.D. New York Times, August 28, 1871; p. 4. * Calvin Lincoln
A discourse on the life and character of Rev. Ezra Stiles Gannett, D.D.
delivered in the meeting-house of the first parish in Hingham. 1871. * James Freeman Clarke. Memorial and biographical sketches. 1878. * William Channing Gannett
Ezra Stiles Gannett, Unitarian minister in Boston, 1824-1871
a memoir. Boston: Roberts Bros., 1875
3rd ed.
American Unitarian Association, 1893. * Samuel Atkins Eliot. Heralds of a liberal faith, Volume 3. 1910. * Stuart Twite

Unitarian Universalist Historical Society. Retrieved 12 January 2010.

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