Henry Morton Dexter (1846–1910) was an American
clergy
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man, historian, and editor.
Life
Henry Morton Dexter was born in
Manchester, New Hampshire
Manchester is a city in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. It is the most populous city in New Hampshire. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 115,644.
Manchester is, along with Nashua, one of two seats of New Hamp ...
on July 12, 1846, the son of
Henry Martyn Dexter
Henry Martyn Dexter (August 13, 1821 – November 13, 1890) was an American Congregationalism in the United States, Congregational clergyman and author.
Biography
Henry Marty Dexter was born in Plympton, Massachusetts. He graduated at Yale Un ...
.
He graduated from
Yale University
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in 1867, where he was a member of
Skull and Bones, and from
Andover Theological Seminary in 1870, spent three years in travel, was ordained to the Congregational ministry, serving as
pastor
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of the Union Church at
Taunton
Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England, with a 2011 population of 69,570. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century monastic foundation, Taunton Castle, which later became a priory. The Normans built a castle owned by the ...
,
(1873–78).
From 1878 to 1891, he was editor of ''
The Congregationalist
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''.
During several visits to
England
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and the
Netherlands
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, anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau")
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, subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands
, established_title = Before independence
, established_date = Spanish Netherl ...
he made investigations particularly of the history of the
Pilgrims and early American colonists, and he prominently promoted the erection of a memorial tablet to
John Robinson John Robinson may refer to:
Academics
*John Thomas Romney Robinson (1792–1882), Irish astronomer and physicist
* John J. Robinson (1918–1996), historian and author of ''Born in Blood''
*John Talbot Robinson (1923–2001), paleontologist
*John ...
at
Leyden, Holland, in 1891.
His work appeared in ''New England Magazine''.
Dexter died in
Edgartown, Massachusetts
Edgartown is a tourist destination on the island of Martha's Vineyard in Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States, for which it is the county seat.
It was once a major whaling port, with historic houses that have been carefully preserved. Tod ...
on October 29, 1910.
Works
* ''The Story of the Pilgrims'' Congregational Sunday-school and publishing society, 1894
* ''England and Holland of the Pilgrims'' (1905)
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American Congregationalists
Writers from Manchester, New Hampshire
Yale University alumni
American Christian clergy
19th-century American historians
1846 births
1910 deaths
Religious leaders from New Hampshire
20th-century American historians
American male non-fiction writers
19th-century American male writers
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