Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (clergyman)

Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (born in Utica, New York, 13 October 1804; died in Boston, Massachusetts, 12 June 1886) was a New England clergyman.

Biography

He was graduated at Harvard 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 in Boston, Massachusetts. The degree of D.D. 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.

Works

Among his literary works are a life of his grandfather, Samuel Kirkland, included in Jared Sparks' “American Biography,” and a History of Brattle Square Church.

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References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1900). "Lothrop, Samuel Kirkland". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.

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