Hosea Hildreth Explained

Hosea Hildreth (January 2, 1782 – 1835) was an educator and minister in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Born in 1782 in Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard College in 1805.^[1]

His son, Richard Hildreth was born in Deerfield, Massachusetts in 1807, where Hosea Hildreth was the ninth head of school at Deerfield Academy.^[2]

He taught mathematics at Phillips Exeter Academy from 1811 to 1825.

As minister of the First Church of Gloucester, he was, according to his son, the last Congregationalist minister ordained by a mixed group of Unitarian and orthodox Congregationalists, when he was called to the pulpit in 1825. He was also notable as the last Congregationalist pastor to exchange pulpits with both Unitarian and orthodox pastors.^[3] This practice and his sympathies eventually led to his expulsion from the Essex Association.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hildreth, Hosea from the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia.. McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia Online. en. 2020-05-27.
2. Web site: Richard Hildreth. uudb.org. 2020-05-27.
3. Book: Sprague, William Buell. Annals of the American Unitarian Pulpit: Or, Commemorative Notices of Distinguished Clergymen of the Unitarian Denomination in the United States, from Its Commencement to the Close of the Year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-five. 1865. R. Carter & brothers. 15. en.