Born: 4-Apr-1810
Birthplace: Hanover, NH
Died: 8-Jun-1888
Location of death: Jamaica Plain, MA
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Religion: Unitarian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Religion, Author

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Ten Great Religions

Father: Samuel Clarke
Mother: Rebecca Hull Clarke
Brother: Sam (older)
Sister: Sarah Ann Clarke
Wife: Anna Huidekoper (m. 1839, four children)
Son: Herman (eldest)

    High School: Boston Latin School (1820-25)
    University: Harvard University (1825-29)
    Theological: Harvard Divinity School (1829-33)
    Professor: Professor of Religion, Harvard University (1867-71)
    Administrator: Board of Overseers, Harvard University (1866-)

Is the subject of books:
James Freeman Clarke, Disciple to Advancing Truth, 1954, BY: Arthur S. Bolster, Jr.

Author of books:
Orthodoxy: Its Truths and Errors (1866, religion)
Ten Great Religions (1871-83, religion, 2 vols.)
Events and Epochs in Religious History (1881, religion)
Every-Day Religion (1886, religion)
Vexed Questions in Theology (1886, religion)
Sermons on the Lord's Prayer (1888, religion)
Autobiography, Diary, and Correspondence (1891, memoir, ed. Edward Everett Hale)

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