Joseph Henry Allen


Joseph Henry Allen was a Unitarian clergyman, editor and scholar.

Biography

He was born in Northborough, Massachusetts. He prepared for college at a school run by his father in Northborough. He graduated at Harvard College, and then at the Divinity School in 1843. He was pastor at the First Congregational Society in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, the Unitarian church in Washington, D.C., and a church in Bangor, Maine. In 1857 he departed from full-time ministry and took up teaching and editing Unitarian periodicals. He lectured at Harvard for four years.

Works

Latin manuals he prepared with James B. Greenough were familiar to high school students.