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Edward Everett Hale (April 3, 1822 – June 10, 1909) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 author and Unitarian
Unitarianism

Unitarianism as a theology is the belief in the single personality of God, in contrast to the doctrine of the Trinity . It is the philosophy upon which the modern Unitarian movement was based, and, according to its proponents, is the Early Christianity of Christianity....
 clergyman.

was born on April 3, 1822, in Roxbury, Massachusetts
Roxbury, Massachusetts

Roxbury is a neighborhood within Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts USA. It was one of the first towns founded in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, and became a city in 1846 until annexed to Boston on January 5, 1868....
, the son of Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale (journalist)

Nathan Hale was an United States journalist and newspaper publisher who introduced regular editorial comment as a newspaper feature....
 (1784-1863), proprietor and editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, and the brother of Lucretia Peabody Hale
Lucretia Peabody Hale

Lucretia Peabody Hale American author born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Nathan Hale and Sarah Preston Everett who had a total of eleven children....
. Edward Hale was the nephew of Edward Everett
Edward Everett

Edward Everett was a Whig Party politician from Massachusetts. Everett was elected to the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate, and also served as President of Harvard University, United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to United Kingdom, and Governor of Massachusetts before being appointed...
, the orator and statesman, while his father was the nephew of the Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale

Nathan Hale was an officer for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Widely considered America's first spy, he volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission, but was captured by the British....
 who was executed by the British for espionage during the Revolutionary War.

Edward Hale graduated from Harvard
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
 in 1839; was pastor of the Church of the Unity, Worcester, Massachusetts
Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester is a city in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in the United States. A 2006 estimate put the population at 175,898, making it the estimated second-largest city in New England, after Boston, Massachusetts....
, in 1846-1856, and of the South Congregational (Unitarian
Unitarianism

Unitarianism as a theology is the belief in the single personality of God, in contrast to the doctrine of the Trinity . It is the philosophy upon which the modern Unitarian movement was based, and, according to its proponents, is the Early Christianity of Christianity....
) church, Boston, in 1856-1899.






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He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.

The Man Without a Country, Epitaph of Philip Nolan

To look up and not down,To look forward and not back,To look out and not in, andTo lend a hand.

Ten Times One is Ten (1870)





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Edward Everett Hale (April 3, 1822 – June 10, 1909) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 author and Unitarian
Unitarianism

Unitarianism as a theology is the belief in the single personality of God, in contrast to the doctrine of the Trinity . It is the philosophy upon which the modern Unitarian movement was based, and, according to its proponents, is the Early Christianity of Christianity....
 clergyman.

Biography

Hale was born on April 3, 1822, in Roxbury, Massachusetts
Roxbury, Massachusetts

Roxbury is a neighborhood within Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts USA. It was one of the first towns founded in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, and became a city in 1846 until annexed to Boston on January 5, 1868....
, the son of Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale (journalist)

Nathan Hale was an United States journalist and newspaper publisher who introduced regular editorial comment as a newspaper feature....
 (1784-1863), proprietor and editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, and the brother of Lucretia Peabody Hale
Lucretia Peabody Hale

Lucretia Peabody Hale American author born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Nathan Hale and Sarah Preston Everett who had a total of eleven children....
. Edward Hale was the nephew of Edward Everett
Edward Everett

Edward Everett was a Whig Party politician from Massachusetts. Everett was elected to the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate, and also served as President of Harvard University, United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to United Kingdom, and Governor of Massachusetts before being appointed...
, the orator and statesman, while his father was the nephew of the Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale

Nathan Hale was an officer for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Widely considered America's first spy, he volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission, but was captured by the British....
 who was executed by the British for espionage during the Revolutionary War.

Edward Hale graduated from Harvard
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
 in 1839; was pastor of the Church of the Unity, Worcester, Massachusetts
Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester is a city in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in the United States. A 2006 estimate put the population at 175,898, making it the estimated second-largest city in New England, after Boston, Massachusetts....
, in 1846-1856, and of the South Congregational (Unitarian
Unitarianism

Unitarianism as a theology is the belief in the single personality of God, in contrast to the doctrine of the Trinity . It is the philosophy upon which the modern Unitarian movement was based, and, according to its proponents, is the Early Christianity of Christianity....
) church, Boston, in 1856-1899. In 1903 he became Chaplain of the United States Senate
Chaplain of the United States Senate

The Chaplain of the United States Senate opens each session of the United States Senate with a prayer. The Chaplain is appointed by majority vote of the members of the Senate....
. Hale married Emily Baldwin Perkins in 1852—she was the niece of Connecticut Governor & US Senator Roger Sherman Baldwin
Roger Sherman Baldwin

Roger Sherman Baldwin was an United States lawyer involved in the Amistad case, who later became governor of Connecticut and United States Senator....
 and Emily Pitkin Perkins
Emily Pitkin Perkins

Emily Pitkin Baldwin, , was born in Hartford, Connecticut to Enoch Perkins and Hannah Pitkin. On 25 October, 1820 she married Roger Sherman Baldwin, who became the Connecticut, Governor in 1844 and US Senator in 1847....
 Baldwin on her father's side and Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist, whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin depicted life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the U.S....
 and Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher was a prominent, Congregational church clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and Orator in the mid to late 19th century....
 on her mother's side. They had eight children; one of his grandsons was the actor Edward Everett Horton
Edward Everett Horton

Edward Everett Horton was an United States character actor with a long career including film, theater, radio, television and voice work for animated cartoons....
. Hale died in Roxbury, by then part of Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
, in 1909.

Combining a forceful personality, organizing genius, and liberal practical theology
Theology

Theology is the study of the existence or attributes of a deity or gods, or more generally the study of religion or spirituality. It is sometimes contrasted with religious studies: theology is understood as the study of religion from an internal perspective , and religious studies as the study of religion from an external perspective....
, Hale was active in raising the tone of American life for half a century. He had a deep interest in the anti-slavery
Slavery

Slavery is a form of forced labor where a person is compelled to Labor for another . Slaves are held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase, or birth, and are deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to receive Remuneration in return for their labor....
 movement (especially in Kansas
Kansas

The State of Kansas is a Midwestern U.S. state in the Central United States of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the United States "Heartland"....
), as well as popular education (especially Chautauqua
Chautauqua

Chautauqua is an adult education movement in the United States, highly popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Chautauqua assemblies expanded and spread throughout rural America until the mid-1920s....
s), and the working-man's home. He was a constant and voluminous contributor to newspapers and magazines. He was an assistant editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser and edited the Christian Examiner, Old and New (which he assisted in founding in 1869 and which merged with Scribner's Magazine
Scribner's Magazine

Scribner's Magazine was an American periodical published by the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons from January 1887 to May 1939....
 in 1875), Lend a Hand (which he founded in 1886 and which merged with the Charities Review in 1897), and the Lend a Hand Record. He was the author or editor of more than sixty books—fiction, travel, sermons, biography and history.
Edward Everett Hale Statue, Boston Public Garden, Boston, Massachusetts
Hale first came to notice as a writer in 1859, when he contributed the short story "My Double and How He Undid Me" to the Atlantic Monthly. He soon published other stories in the same periodical. The best known of these was "The Man Without a Country
The Man Without a Country

The Man Without a Country was a short story published anonymously by Edward Everett Hale, in the Atlantic Monthly in . Although the events of the novel were set in the early 1800s, the story was an allegory and implicitly referred to the upheaval of the American Civil War ....
" (1863), which did much to strengthen the Union cause in the North, and in which, as in some of his other non-romantic tales, he employed a minute realism which led his readers to suppose the narrative a record of fact. These two stories and such others as "The Rag-Man and the Rag-Woman" and "The Skeleton in the Closet," gave him a prominent position among short-story writers of 19th century America. His short story "The Brick Moon
The Brick Moon

"The Brick Moon" is a short story by Edward Everett Hale, published serially in The Atlantic Monthly starting in 1869. It is a work of speculative fiction containing the first known depiction of an artificial satellite....
", serialized in the Atlantic Monthly, is the first known fictional description of an artificial satellite
Satellite

In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an Physical body which has been placed into orbit by human endeavor. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
. It was possibly an influence on the novel The Begum's Fortune by Jules Verne
Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne was a France author who helped pioneer the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Journey to the Center of the Earth , From the Earth to the Moon , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , and Around the World in Eighty Days ....
.

The story "Ten Times One is Ten" (1870), with its hero Harry Wadsworth, contained the motto, first enunciated in 1869 in his Lowell Institute
Lowell Institute

Lowell Institute, an educational foundation in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., providing for free public lectures, and endowed by the bequest of $237,000 left by John Lowell, Jr....
 lectures: "Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand." This motto was the basis for the formation of Lend-a-Hand Clubs, Look-up Legions and Harry Wadsworth Clubs for young people. Out of the romantic Waldensian story "In His Name" (1873) there similarly grew several other organizations for religious work, such as King's Daughters, and King's Sons.

Hale once said, "I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do."

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