Word: deerfield
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...born in Groton, Mass., Dec. 10, 1819. He was a farmer's son, and was educated in the public schools and seminary. He entered Harvard in 1838 and graduated in 1842. He graduated from the Divinity School, Cambridge, in 1845; was ordained and made pastor of the Unitarian Church, Deerfield, Jan. 28, 1846 and dismissed in April, 1861; was installed pastor of the Unitarian Society of Greenfield, April 22, 1861. Here his principal life work was done. He remained pastor until 1885, and came to be the most widely known clergyman of liberal faith in the Connecticut Valley and Western...
...trampled on the dreams of his youth;" that is, the power of surrendering himself to a purely abstract enthusiasm. The imagination always asserts its place in history, for it is inseparable from the nature of man, and the story of Colonel Goffe at Deerfield is but a modern version of the Dioscuri and of St. James of Compostella. In my walk the other day, I saw a man sitting in the sun in front of a little cottage which commanded a pretty landscape. "You have a charming view here," said I. "Yes," he answered, "I take a great deal...