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Allen, Joseph Henry

clergyman, lecturer, author, was born Aug. 21, 1820, in Northborough, Mass. He attended the district school till the age of thirteen years, and graduated from Harvard college in 1840. During 1843-47 he filled a pastorate in Jamaica Plain, near Boston; in Washington, D. C., 1847-50; in Bangor, Maine, 1850-57. During 1857-69 he was editor of the Christian Examiner; from 1887-91 was editor of the Unitarian Review; and during 1878-82 was lecturer on ecclesiastical history in the Harvard university. He was associate editor of the Allen and Greenough series of classical text-books. He is the author of Hebrew Men and Times; Fragments of Christian History; Christian History, in three volumes; Outline of Christian History; Positive Religion; Historical Sketch of Unitarianism; and other works.