Mary H. Graves | |
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| Born | Mary Hannah Graves September 12, 1839 North Reading, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | December 5, 1908 (aged 69) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Resting place | Riverside Cemetery in North Reading, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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| Language | English |
| Alma mater | Abbot Academy, State Normal School at Salem |
| Notable works | Sketches of representative women of New England |
Mary H. Graves (September 12, 1839 – December 5, 1908) was an American Unitarian minister, literary editor, and writer of the long nineteenth century. After Julia Ward Howe, Graves was the second woman to be ordained within this Christian theological movement.[1]
She aspired to the ministry, and studied under the guidance of Rev. Olympia Brown of the Universalist faith. She was ordained by James Freeman Clarke as a Unitarian minister, and passed years in several pastorates, the earliest of which was at Mansfield, Massachusetts. She preached with acceptance in various places in the west, in Peoria, Illinois, Earlville, Illinois, and Manitou, Colorado. She also gave to friends valuable assistance in the education of their children. As the years wore on, her strength proved unequal to the arduous duties of the ministry, and her time was filled with literary work. She contributed occasionally to the pages of The Christian Register, and other periodicals. With Julia Ward Howe, Graves edited a volume on the eminent women of New England, Sketches of representative women of New England (1904).[2][3]
- ^ Harris 2018, p. 104.
- ^ American Unitarian Association 1908, p. 16.
- ^ H. W. Wilson Company 1906, p. 864.