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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Henry Whitney Bellows (1814–1882)

Bellows, Henry Whitney. A prominent Unitarian divine and miscellaneous writer; born at Walpole, NH, June 11, 1814; died in New York, Jan. 30, 1882. He became pastor of All Souls’ Church, New York, 1839; was chief founder and long editor of the Christian Inquirer (1846); president and chief originator of the United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War (1861–65). He wrote: ‘Public Life of Washington’ (1866); ‘Relation of Public Amusements to Public Morality’; ‘The Old World in its New Face’ (2 vols., 1868–69), a record of travel in Europe.