Ezra Stiles Gannett Explained

Ezra Stiles Gannett (May 4, 1801 - August 26, 1871) was a Unitarian minister in Boston, Massachusetts.

The grandson of Yale University president Ezra Stiles,^[1] he was graduated from Harvard College, and in 1824 he began working for the Federal Street Church; he remained with the congregation for the duration of his career. In 1861 he moved with his congregation to a new building, the Arlington Street Church in Back Bay. He was also associated with the American Unitarian Association. "He was a Unitarian of the more conservative type, an excellent preacher, and an ardent reformer."^[2] Reverend Gannett was killed in a train wreck a few miles north of Boston, Massachusetts on August 26, 1871. Gannett is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery.^{[3] [4]} He was the great-grandfather of author Ruth Stiles Gannett^[5] and the father of writer and social reformer Kate Gannett Wells.^[6]

Further reading

Works by Gannett:

• Relation of the North to slavery: A discourse preached in the Federal Street Church. 1854.
• A discourse delivered in the meetinghouse on Church Green: Boston, on Monday, March 20, 1854, at the funeral of the late Rev. Alexander Young, D.D., pastor of the New South Church. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Co., 1854.
• National Commercial Convention: a discourse delivered in the Arlington-street Meeting-house, in Boston, on Sunday, Feb. 16, 1868.

Works about Gannett:

• Ezra Stiles Gannett, D.D. New York Times, August 28, 1871; p. 4.
• Calvin Lincoln. A discourse on the life and character of Rev. Ezra Stiles Gannett, D.D., delivered in the meeting-house of the first parish in Hingham. 1871.
• James Freeman Clarke. Memorial and biographical sketches. 1878.
• William Channing Gannett. Ezra Stiles Gannett, Unitarian minister in Boston, 1824-1871: a memoir. Boston: Roberts Bros., 1875. 3rd ed., American Unitarian Association, 1893.
• Samuel Atkins Eliot. Heralds of a liberal faith, Volume 3. 1910.
• Stuart Twite. Ezra Stiles Gannett. Unitarian Universalist Historical Society. Retrieved 12 January 2010.

External links

• The papers and sermons of Ezra Stiles Gannett are in the Harvard Divinity School Library at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=BmhKMPWajPwC&q=yale&pg=PA11 Ezra Stiles Gannett, Unitarian Minister in Boston, 1824-1871: A Memoir, p. 11.
2. New international encyclopedia, 2nd ed., v.9. NY: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1915; p.453.
3. W.C. Gannett, 1893; p.414.
4. WorldCat. Gannett, Ezra S. (Ezra Stiles) 1801-1871
5. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=marilynn_munoz&id=I067003
6. Web site: University of Rochester Library Bulletin: Kate Gannett Wells, Anti-Suffragist RBSCP . 2022-11-29 . rbscp.lib.rochester.edu.