| editor, The Biographical Dictionary of America… (1906)
“ He then founded and became the first pastor of Pilgrim Congregational church (then Stearns chapel) at Cambridge, serving 1865-9, resigning his charge to take the associate editorship of the Congregationalist, in which work he continued from 1869 to 1878, when he accepted the editorial chair of the Literary World, continuing with that periodical until 1903. His religious views underwent a change and he accepted the tenets of the Protestant Episcopal church, was ordained a deacon in 1879, and was advanced to the priesthood in 1880. ”
