Samuel McChord Crothers was an American

United States

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 Unitarian Universalist minister with The First Parish in Cambridge

The First Parish in Cambridge

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. He was a popular essayist.

Crothers graduated from Wittenberg College in 1873. In 1874, he graduated from College of New Jersey

Princeton University

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. After earning a divinity degree at Union Theological Seminary

Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York

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 in 1877, he became a Presbyterian minister. He resigned in 1881 and converted to the Unitarian church in 1882.

Crothers died suddenly at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Selected bibliography

• 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)
• "A Literary Clinic", The Atlantic Monthly, Vol.118, No.3, (September 1916), pp.291-301 (he coined the term "bibliotherapy
  Bibliotherapy
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• 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)
• The Children of Dickens (1925)

External links

• Samuel McChord Crothers via Unitarianism in America
• Crothers, Samuel McChord. Sermons, 1879-1927.