Caleb Sprague Henry

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| death_place = Newburgh, New York

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Caleb Sprague Henry (1804–1884) was an American Protestant Episcopal clergyman and author.

Biography

Caleb Sprague Henry was born in Rutland, Massachusetts, on August 2, 1804.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentur26unkngoog/page/n240/mode/1up |title=The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans |volume=V |editor1-first=Rossiter |editor1-last=Johnson |editor2-first=John Howard |editor2-last=Brown |publisher=American Biographical Society |location=Boston |page= |year=1904 |access-date=2022-04-20 |via=Internet Archive}} He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1825 and studied theology at Andover Theological Seminary and New Haven.{{cite book|last=Marsh|first=James|author2=John J. Duffy|title=Coleridge's American disciples: the selected correspondence of James Marsh|publisher=Univ of Massachusetts Press|year=1973|pages=128|isbn=978-0-87023-121-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=57WQmJGCQuIC&pg=PA128 |accessdate=February 8, 2010}}

In 1828 he became a Congregational minister at Greenfield, Massachusetts, and in 1833 removed to Hartford, Connecticut. In 1834 he started the American Advocate of Peace, the organ of the American Peace Society. He then entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church and was professor of moral and intellectual philosophy in Bristol College, Pennsylvania (1835–1838). In 1837, with the aid of Rev. Francis L. Hawks, he established the New York Review. He was professor of history and philosophy in New York University from 1839 to 1852.

Later he was rector of various churches, but was chiefly engaged in literary work. He translated Guizot's History of Civilization and other works from the French and was the author of several works, including Compendium of Christian Antiquities (1837), Social Welfare and Human Progress (1860), and Satan as a Moral Philosopher (1877).

He died in Newburgh, New York, on March 9, 1884.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100124806/recent-deaths-the-rev-caleb-s-henry/ |title=Recent Deaths: The Rev. Caleb S. Henry |newspaper=Hartford Courant |location=Newburgh, New York |page=3 |date=1884-03-13 |access-date=2022-04-20 |via=Newspapers.com}}

Caleb Sprague Henry

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