Joseph Henry Allen (August 21, 1820 – March 20, 1898) was a Unitarian clergyman, editor and scholar.

Biography

He was born in

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, the son of Joseph Allen and Lucy Clark. He prepared for college at a school run by his father in Northborough. He graduated at

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, and then at the Divinity School in 1843. He was pastor at the First Congregational Society in

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(1843), the Unitarian church in

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(1847), and a church in Bangor, Maine (1850). In 1857 he departed from full-time ministry and took up teaching (in Jamaica Plain, Northborough and West Newton) and editing Unitarian periodicals (''Christian Examiner'', 1863-5; ''Unitarian Review'', 1887-1891). He lectured at Harvard for four years (1887-1891). He died at his home in

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on March 20, 1898.

Works

*''Ten Discourses on Orthodoxy'' (1849) *''Hebrew Men and Times'' (to the Christian era), (Boston, 1861) *''Manual Latin Grammar'' (1868) *''A Latin Reader'' (with his brother William Francis Allen; 1869) *''A Latin Primer'' (1870) *''Our Liberal Movement in Theology, chiefly as Shown in Recollections of the History of Unitarianism in New England'' (1882) *''Christian History in its Three Great Periods'', (1) Early Christianity, (2) The Middle Age, (3) Modern Phases (three volumes, 1882–83) *''Historical Sketch of the Unitarian Movement since the Reformation'', (New York, 1894). Latin manuals he prepared with James B. Greenough were familiar to high school students.

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External links

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Historical correspondence
with Joseph Henry Allen is in the Harvard Divinity School Library at

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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Allen, Joseph Henry American Christian theologians 1820 births 1898 deaths Harvard Divinity School alumni American Unitarians People from Northborough, Massachusetts