Henry Morton Dexter
{{Short description|American historian (1846–1910)}}
{{Similar names|Henry Dexter (disambiguation){{!}}Henry Dexter}}
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Henry Morton Dexter (1846–1910) was an American clergyman, historian, and editor.
Life
Henry Morton Dexter was born in Manchester, New Hampshire on July 12, 1846, the son of Henry Martyn Dexter.{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/?id=W3MWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP119 |title=Biographical History of Massachusetts |volume=IV |editor-first=Samuel Atkins |editor-last=Eliot |editor-link=Samuel A. Eliot (minister) |publisher=Massachusetts Biographical Society |location=Boston, Massachusetts |page= |year=1913 |access-date=2022-06-05 |via=Google Books}} He graduated from Yale University in 1867, where he was a member of Skull and Bones,{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iCN-AAAAIAAJ | title=The twelfth general catalogue of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity | access-date=March 24, 2011 | date=1917| last1=Fraternity | first1=Psi Upsilon }} and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1870, spent three years in travel, was ordained to the Congregational ministry, serving as pastor of the Union Church at Taunton, Massachusetts (1873–78).
From 1878 to 1891, he was editor of The Congregationalist.
During several visits to England and the Netherlands he made investigations particularly of the history of the Pilgrims and early American colonists, and he prominently promoted the erection of a memorial tablet to John Robinson at Leyden, Holland, in 1891.
His work appeared in New England Magazine.{{cite book|title=The New England Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BtxAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA182|year=1900|publisher=New England Magazine Company|pages=182–}}
Dexter died in Edgartown, Massachusetts on October 29, 1910.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49799833/obituary-for-morton-rev-dexter-aged-64/ |title=Rev Morton Dexter Dead |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=9 |date=1910-10-31 |access-date=2022-06-05 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Works
- The Story of the Pilgrims Congregational Sunday-school and publishing society, 1894
- England and Holland of the Pilgrims (1905)
Notes
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References
- {{NIE|wstitle = Dexter, Henry Martin|volume=6 }}
Sources
- {{cite book|author=Yale University. Class of 1867|title=Report of the Trigintennial Meeting with a Biographical and Statistical Record|url=https://archive.org/details/reportoftriginte00yalerich|year=1897|publisher=J. G. C. Bonney|pages=[https://archive.org/details/reportoftriginte00yalerich/page/151 151]–}}
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Category:American Congregationalists
Category:Writers from Manchester, New Hampshire
Category:Yale University alumni
Category:American Christian clergy
Category:19th-century American historians
Category:Religious leaders from New Hampshire
Category:20th-century American historians
Category:American male non-fiction writers
Category:19th-century American male writers
Category:Members of Skull and Bones
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