Family:Whitney, Frederick Augustus (1812-1880)
Rev. Frederick Augustus8 Whitney (Peter7, Peter6, Aaron5, Moses4, Moses3, Richard2, John1), son of Peter7 and Jane Lambert (Lincoln) Whitney, was born 13 Sep 1812, Quincy, MA, and died 21 Oct 1880, Allston, MA.
He married, 11 Jan 1853, Elizabeth Perkins Matchell. She was born 18 Dec 1809.
Rev. Frederick Augustus Whitney was born in Quincy, 13 Sep 1812. He was graduated at Harvard college in 1833, being the fourth generation in a direct line graduating at Harvard. He continued his studies at the Cambridge divinity school, graduating in 1838. He was ordained pastor at First Church, Brighton, Feb. 21, 1844, and continue in charge of that parish until 1858, since which time (until his death in 1881), he was engaged in literary and historical work. He was engaged in the preparation of a history of Brighton at the time of his demise, and a portion of this work is embodied in Drake's History of Middlesex Country. His interest in education was evinced for several years as a member of the school board of Brighton, and as a trustee of the Holton public library (now a branch of the Boston public library), at that place, where may be found many published reports, memoirs and addresses from his pen. He was widely known and respected in the Unitarian denomination to which he belonged. Besides there, and various sermons, addresses, and contributions to current literature, he published "Historical Sketch of the Old Church at Quincy," (Albany, 1864) and "Biography of James Holton," founder of the Holton library, Brighton (Boston, 1865). He was also the author of various hymns, some of which are collected in Rev. Alfred P. Putnam's "Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith" (Boston, 1875). He resided Allston, MA, 12 Gardner St. s.p.
References
- All data imported from Frederick Clifton Pierce, The Descendants of John Whitney, Who Came from London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635, (Chicago: 1895), p. 482.
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