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RARE “19th Century Unitarian Minister" Orville Dewey Clipped Signature:
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Up for sale "Unitarian Minister" Orville Dewey Cut Signature. 

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Orville Dewey (March 28, 1794 – March 21, 1882)

was an American Unitarian minister. Dewey was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts. His ancestors

were among the first settlers of Sheffield, where he spent his early life,

alternately working upon his father's farm and attending the village school. He

was naturally thoughtful, and was encouraged in his love of reading by his

father. His mother's piety had great influence in the formation of his

character. The strict Calvinism that colored the religious life around him was

greatly tempered by his intercourse with his cousin, Paul Dewey, who was an

able mathematician and a skeptic with regard to the prevailing theology.

Dewey's parents had him so thoroughly prepared for College that he entered the

sophomore class in Williams College, where he was graduated in

1814. He then returned to Sheffield, where he engaged in teaching, and

afterward went to New York, becoming a clerk in a dry goods

house. He was graduated at Andover Theological Seminary in 1819, and

for eight months was agent for the American education society, having declined

an immediate and permanent pastorate on account of his unsettled views

regarding theology. Notwithstanding a very candid expression of his opinions,

he was offered a pulpit in Gloucester, which he accepted temporarily.

He soon became a Unitarian, and was appointed to be the assistant of Dr. William Ellery Channing, in Boston, with

whom he formed a lasting friendship, and whose Church he supplied during its

pastor's travels in Europe. In 1823 he became pastor of the Unitarian Church in New Bedford, remaining there for ten

years, until he went to Europe on account of his health. He was called to the

second Unitarian Church of New York in 1835, which during his ministry built

the Church of the Messiah. In

1840, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary

Academician. In 1842 his health again failed, and he went a second time to

Europe, returning in 1844. He was compelled to resign his charge in 1848, and

retired to his farm in Sheffield, where he prepared a course of lectures for

the Lowell Institute of Boston, on the

"Problem of Human Life and Destiny," which course was repeated twice

in New York, and delivered in many other cities. This was followed by a second

Lowell course, in 1855, on the "Education of the Human Race," which

was widely repeated. Dr. Dewey was called to a church in Albany,

where he remained one year, and to Washington, where he spent two years. In 1858

he again settled in Boston as pastor of the New South Church but

retired after four years of service, and once more returned to his farm in

Sheffield, where he resided until his death. He lectured frequently, and

appeared in public for the last time in the old Congregational Church at the

centennial celebration, June 18, 1876. His controversial articles and sermons

were reprinted in a cheap form by the Unitarian association. His first book was

"Letters on Revivals." His works were issued in a collected edition

(3 vols., New York, 1847); and again (1 vol., London, 1844). His daughter, Mary Elizabeth Dewey,

author, born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, translated George Sand's "Miller

of Angibault" and edited "Life and Letters of Catharine M.

Sedgwick" (New York, 1871).

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