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Ellis, George Edward

clergyman, author, was born in 1814, in Massachusetts. He was a unitarian clergyman of Boston, who was pastor of the Harvard church in Charlestown in 1840-69, and for many years president of the Massachusetts Historical society. He was the author of A Half Century of the Unitarian Controversy; Evidences of Christianity; The Red Man and the White in North America; The Organ and Church Music; Aims and Purposes of the Founders of Massachusetts; Memoirs of Count Rumford, Jared Sparks, Jacob Bigelow, Luther Bell, and others; Lives of John Mason, Anne Hutchinson, and William Penn, in Sparks's American Biography; and History of the Battle of Bunker Hill.

The Puritan Age and Rule in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay is his most important work. He died in 1894.