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Joseph Tuckerman

Short Name: Joseph Tuckerman
Full Name: Tuckerman, Joseph, 1778-1840
Birth Year: 1778
Death Year: 1840

Tuckerman, Rev. Joseph, D.D. (Boston, Massachusetts, January 18, 1778--April 20, 1840, Havana, Cuba). He graduated from Harvard College in 1798, a classmate of Rev. William Ellery Channing, whose close friend he remained through life. He was license to preach by the Boston Association and in 1801 was ordained minister of a church in Chelsea, Mass., at that time a small farming community, which he served for 25 years. He then moved to Boston to begin his "ministry-at-large" to the unchurched elements in the population, under the auspices of the American Unitarian Association and later of the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches. He attained wide reputation for his philanthropy and his wide methods of social reform. Harvard gave him the honorary degree of D.D. in 1824.

--Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives


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