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HALE, Edward Everett, author and clergy-
man, was born in Boston, Mass., April 3, 1832;
son of Nathan and Sarah Preston (Everett) Hale;
grandson of the Rev. Enoch and Octavia (Throop)
Hale; great-grandson of Deacon Richard and
Elizabeth (Strong) Hale; and a descendant (in
the seventh generation) of Deacon Robert Hale,
who came to Massachusetts from Hertfordshire,
England, in 1632. He was prepared for college at
the Boston Latin school and was graduated at
Harvard, A.B., 1839, A.M., 1842. He was an
usher in the Boston
Latin school, 1839-
41; read theology
and church history,
worked in his father's
printing office, in the
editorial rooms, and
as secretaiy to his
father in his rail-
road work. In 1842
he was licensed to
preach by the Boston
association of Unita-
rian Congregational
ministers and had no
permanent charge till
1846, when he was settled over the Church of
the Unity, Worcester, Mass., where he remained
for ten years. In 1856 he accepted the pastorate
of the South Congregational church, Boston,
Mass. , and remained in charge of that congrega-
tion until Oct. 1, 1899, when he resigned and
became pastor emeritus. He originated the
" Harry Wards worth Clubs " through an incident
in " Ten Times One is Ten," and these organiza-
tions, devoted to charity, extended with the
world's civilization and had a membership of over
50,000. Their motto is: " Look up and not down;
look forward and not back; look out and not in;
lend a hand." He also assisted in the organiza-
tion of the " Look-up Legion " in the Sunday
schools and it extended as did the " Lend a
Hand " clubs and finally became the Epworth
League. He was elected a counsellor of the
Chautauqua literary and scientific circle. He
was president of the National conference of
Unitarian and other Christian churches, 1894-95,
and a member of its coimcil from its organiza-
tion; overseer of Harvard, 1866-75, and 1876-87;
was elected a member of the American philosoph-
ical society and the Massachusetts historical
society; a fellow of the American academy of
arts and sciences and an honorary me^^ber of
the Geographical society of the Republic of Mex-
ico. He helped to foimd the Worcester public
library, was a member of the executive commit-
tee of the New England Emigrant Aid company,
organized to secure a free-state government for
Kansas; was an officer of Salignac's drill corps,
1861-62; edited the Monthly Chronicle, the Boston
Miscellany, the Christian Examiner, the Sunday-
School Gazette, Old and New, Lend a Hand and the
Lend a Hand Record, and assisted in editing the
New England Magazine and Cominonwealth He
received from Harvard the degree of S.T. D. in
1879. His books include: TJie Rosary (1848); Mar-
garet Percival in America (1850); Sketches of Chris-
tian History (1850); Letters on Irish Emigration
(1852); Kansas and Nebraska (1854); Ninety Days'
Worth of Europe (1861); A Man Without a Country
(1864); If, Yes and Perhaps (1868); The Ingham
Papers (1869); How To Do It (1870); Ten Times
One is Ten ( 1870); His Level Best and Other Stories
(1870); Daily Bread and Other Stories (1870); Ups
and Downs: an Every Day Novel (1871); Sybaris
and Other Homes (1871); Christmas Eve and Christ-
mas Day (1874); In His Name (1874); A Summer
Vacation: Four Sermons (1874); Working Mens
Homes: Essays and Stories (1874); TJie Good Time
Coming, or Our New Crusade (1875); One Hundred
Years (1875); Philip Nolan's Friends (1876); Gone
to Texas, or the Wonderful Adventures of a Pullman
(1877); What Career? (1878); Mrs. Merriam's
Scholars (1878); The Life in Common (1879); The
Bible and its Revision (1879); TTie Kingdom of God
(1880); Crusoe in New York (1880); Stories of War
(1880); June to May (1881); Stories of the Sea
(1881); Stories of Adventure (1881); Stories of
Discovery (1883); Seven Spanish Cities (1883);
Fortunes of Rachel (1884); Christmas in a Palace
(1884); Christmas in Narragansett (1884); Stories
of Invention (1885); Easter (1886); Back to Back
(1887); Franklin in France (1887); The Life of
Washington (1887); The History of the United States
(1888); How They Lived in Hampton (1888); My
Friend the Boss (1888); James Freeman Clarke
(1891); Story of Massachusetts (1891); Sybil Knox
(1892); East and West, or the New O/iiO (1892); For
Fifty Years (poems, 1893); A New England Boy-
hood (1893); Sermons of the Winter (1893); If
Jesus Came to Boston (1894); Susan's Escort, and
Others (1897); Historic Boston and Its Neighborhood
(1898); James Russell Lowell and His Friends
(1899). A uniform edition of his works was
published in 1898.
HALE, Edwin Moses, educator, was born at Newport, N.H., Feb. 2, 1829; son of Syene and Betsy (Dow) Hale; and grandson of David and Hannah (Emerson) Hale, and of Moses and Sarah Dow. His paternal grandfather fpught at Bunker Hill. He was married. Oct. 13, 1852, to Abba Ann Wilson, daughter of Austin and Roxanna (Smith) George. He was graduated from the Cleveland Homoeopathic medical college in 1859 and practised in Jonesville, Mich., until 1863. He was professor of materia medica in the Hahnemann medical college, Chicago, 1863-70;
