Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (born in Utica, New York, 13 October 1804; died in Boston, Massachusetts, 12 June 1886) was an American clergyman. He was graduated at

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

in 1825, and at the Harvard Divinity School in 1828. In 1829 he was ordained pastor of the Unitarian church in Dover, New Hampshire, and on 17 June 1834, took charge of the

Brattle Square Church The First Baptist Church (or "Brattle Square Church") is an historic American Baptist Churches USA congregation, established in 1665. It is one of the oldest Baptist churches in the United States. It first met secretly in members homes, and ...

in Boston, Massachusetts. The degree of

D.D. A Doctor of Divinity (D.D. or DDiv; la, Doctor Divinitatis) is the holder of an advanced academic degree in divinity. In the United Kingdom, it is considered an advanced doctoral degree. At the University of Oxford, doctors of divinity are ra ...

was conferred on him by Harvard in 1852. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1853. His society moved to a new building in 1873, but dissolved in 1876, when Lothrop resigned the pastorate. He was a member of the Boston School Committee for 30 years, and chairman of its committee on the English high school for 26. Among his literary works are a life of his grandfather,

Samuel Kirkland Samuel Kirkland (December 1, 1741 – February 28, 1808) was a Presbyterian minister and missionary among the Oneida and Tuscarora peoples of present-day central New York State. He was a long-time friend of the Oneida chief Skenandoa. Kirkland g ...

, included in Jared Sparks' ''American Biography'', and a ''History of Brattle Square Church''. His grandmother was

Jerusha Bingham Kirkland Jerusha Bingham Kirkland (October 15, 1743 – January 23, 1788) was a prominent colonial American pioneer in the missionary cause. During the years of her residence and labors among the Oneida people, where she and her husband, Rev. Dr. Samuel K ...

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