Samuel Mcchord Crothers

By the Christmas Fire (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) Samuel Mcchord Crothers Illustrated edition

Samuel McChord Crothers (1857-1927) was an American Unitarian Universalist minister with The First Parish in Cambridge. He was a popular essayist. He graduated from Wittenberg College in 1873. In 1874, he graduated from College of New Jersey. After earning a divinity degree at Union Theological Seminary in 1877, he became a Presbyterian minister. He resigned in 1881 and converted to the Unitarian church in 1882. His works include The Understanding Heart (1903), The Gentle Reader (1903), The Pardoner's Wallet (1905), By the Christmas Fire (1908), Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Autocrat and His Fellow-Boarders (1909), Among Friends (1910), Humanly Speaking (1912), Meditations on Votes for Women, etc. (1914), The Pleasures of an Absentee Landlord (1916), The Dame School of Experience (1920), Ralph Waldo Emerson: How to Know Him (1921), The Cheerful Giver (1923) and The Children of Dickens (1925).