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class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1810-05-25</span>)</span>May 25, 1810<br /><a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>, Massachusetts, US</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">December 23, 1884<span style="display:none">(1884-12-23)</span> (aged 74)<br />London, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline 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width="150" height="22" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Signature_of_William_Henry_Channing.png/225px-Signature_of_William_Henry_Channing.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Signature_of_William_Henry_Channing.png 2x" data-file-width="237" data-file-height="34" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>William Henry Channing</b> (May 25, 1810 – December 23, 1884) was an American Unitarian clergyman, writer and philosopher. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Henry_Channing&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>William Henry Channing was born in <a href="/wiki/Boston,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston, Massachusetts">Boston, Massachusetts</a>. Channing's father, Francis Dana Channing, died when he was an infant,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> and responsibility for the young man's education was assumed by his uncle, <a href="/wiki/William_Ellery_Channing" title="William Ellery Channing">William Ellery Channing</a>, the pre-eminent <a href="/wiki/Unitarianism" title="Unitarianism">Unitarian</a> theologian of the early nineteenth century. His other uncles included physician and Harvard professor <a href="/wiki/Walter_Channing_(physician)" title="Walter Channing (physician)">Walter Channing</a>, and Harvard professor of rhetorici <a href="/wiki/Edward_Tyrrel_Channing" title="Edward Tyrrel Channing">Edward Tyrrel Channing</a>. His grandfather was William Channing, <a href="/wiki/Attorney_General_of_Rhode_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Attorney General of Rhode Island">Attorney General of Rhode Island</a>. </p><p>Channing graduated from <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard College</a> in 1829 and from <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Divinity_School" title="Harvard Divinity School">Harvard Divinity School</a> in 1833. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Henry_Channing&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Channing was ordained and installed over the Unitarian church in <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati,_Ohio" class="mw-redirect" title="Cincinnati, Ohio">Cincinnati</a> in 1835. He became warmly interested in the schemes of <a href="/wiki/Charles_Fourier" title="Charles Fourier">Charles Fourier</a> and others for social reorganization. He moved to Boston about 1847, afterward to <a href="/wiki/Rochester,_New_York" title="Rochester, New York">Rochester, New York</a> and to New York City, where, both as preacher and editor, he became a leader in a movement of <a href="/wiki/Christian_socialism" title="Christian socialism">Christian socialism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As an early supporter of the <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialistic movement</a> in the United States, he was editor of the <i>Present</i>, the <i>Spirit of the Age</i> and the <i>Harbinger</i>. In 1848 he presided over The Religious Union of Associationists in Boston, a socialist group which included many members of the <a href="/wiki/Brook_Farm" title="Brook Farm">Brook Farm</a> commune. </p><p>Channing took active part in the early years of the woman’s rights movement. He signed the call for and attended the first <a href="/wiki/National_Woman%27s_Rights_Convention" class="mw-redirect" title="National Woman's Rights Convention">National Woman's Rights Convention</a> in 1850, where he was appointed to the National Women’s Rights Central Committee.<sup id="cite_ref-million_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-million-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As minister of the <a href="/wiki/First_Unitarian_Church_of_Rochester" title="First Unitarian Church of Rochester">First Unitarian Church of Rochester</a> in 1852, he influenced <a href="/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony" title="Susan B. Anthony">Susan B. Anthony</a>, a member of his congregation who was a young schoolteacher on the threshold of her career as a women's rights activist. <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton" title="Elizabeth Cady Stanton">Elizabeth Cady Stanton</a>, Anthony's close friend and co-worker, said in her autobiography that, "She [Anthony] first found words to express her convictions in listening to Rev. William Henry Channing, whose teaching had a lasting spiritual influence upon her."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Channing wrote the call for and played a leading role in the Women's Rights Convention that Anthony organized in Rochester in 1853.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The convention launched a petition campaign for equal legal and voting rights for women, for which Channing wrote the petitions and, with <a href="/wiki/Ernestine_Rose" title="Ernestine Rose">Ernestine Rose</a>, addressed a select committee of the New York Senate in February 1854.<sup id="cite_ref-million_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-million-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Between 1854-1857, Channing was minister at <a href="/wiki/Renshaw_Street_Unitarian_Chapel" title="Renshaw Street Unitarian Chapel">Renshaw Street Unitarian Chapel</a> in <a href="/wiki/Liverpool" title="Liverpool">Liverpool</a>, England.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1857, he succeeded <a href="/wiki/James_Martineau" title="James Martineau">James Martineau</a> as minister of the <a href="/wiki/Hope_Street_Unitarian_Chapel" title="Hope Street Unitarian Chapel">Hope Street Unitarian Chapel</a>, Liverpool, England. At the commencement of the American Civil War, he returned (1862) and took charge of the Unitarian church in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D. C.</a> William Henry Channing, along with the younger <a href="/wiki/William_Ellery_Channing_(poet)" title="William Ellery Channing (poet)">Ellery Channing</a>, was a <a href="/wiki/Transcendentalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Transcendentalist">Transcendentalist</a>. He was a prolific writer, contributing to the <i><a href="/wiki/North_American_Review" title="North American Review">North American Review</a></i>, the <i><a href="/wiki/The_Dial" title="The Dial">Dial</a></i>, the <i><a href="/wiki/The_Christian_Examiner" class="mw-redirect" title="The Christian Examiner">Christian Examiner</a></i>, and other serials, a member of the <a href="/wiki/Transcendental_Club" title="Transcendental Club">Transcendental Club</a>, a close friend of <a href="/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau" title="Henry David Thoreau">Henry David Thoreau</a> and corresponded with <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>. </p><p>Among his inspirational writings, one piece, his "Symphony", is well-known:<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dd><i>To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common — this is my symphony.</i><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>Channing was, in 1863 and 1864, the <a href="/wiki/Chaplain_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives">Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives</a>. He died in London. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Henry_Channing&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Channing was married to Julia Maria Allen. Their children include the author and poet, <a href="/wiki/Blanche_Mary_Channing" title="Blanche Mary Channing">Blanche Mary Channing</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Francis_Channing,_1st_Baron_Channing_of_Wellingborough" title="Francis Channing, 1st Baron Channing of Wellingborough">Francis Channing, 1st Baron Channing of Wellingborough</a>. He died in London. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Larger_works">Larger works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Henry_Channing&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Larger works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>A translation of <a href="/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_Simon_Jouffroy" title="Théodore Simon Jouffroy">Jouffroy</a>'s </i>Ethics<i> (1840)</i></li> <li><i>Memoir of</i> [his uncle] <i><a href="/wiki/William_Ellery_Channing" title="William Ellery Channing">William Ellery Channing</a></i> (three volumes, 1848)</li> <li><i>Memoir of</i> [his cousin] <i><a href="/wiki/The_Reverend" title="The Reverend">the Rev.</a> James H. Perkins</i> (1851)</li> <li><i>Memoir of <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Fuller" title="Margaret Fuller">Margaret Fuller Ossoli</a></i> (in conjunction with Emerson and <a href="/wiki/James_Freeman_Clarke" title="James Freeman Clarke">J. F. Clarke</a> (1852)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literature">Literature</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Henry_Channing&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>For his <i>Life</i> consult <a href="/wiki/Octavius_Brooks_Frothingham" class="mw-redirect" title="Octavius Brooks Frothingham">O. B. Frothingham</a> (Boston, 1886)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Henry_Channing&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Normal_School_for_Colored_Girls" title="Normal School for Colored Girls">Normal School for Colored Girls</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Henry_Channing&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFWilsonFiske1900" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/James_Grant_Wilson" title="James Grant Wilson">Wilson, J. 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Appleton.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Channing%2C+William+Ellery&rft.btitle=Appletons%27+Cyclop%C3%A6dia+of+American+Biography&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=D.+Appleton&rft.date=1900&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Henry+Channing" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-million-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-million_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-million_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Million, Joelle (2003) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ydeGAAAAMAAJ"><i>Woman's Voice, Woman's Place: Lucy Stone and the Birth of the Women's Rights Movement</i></a>, Praeger <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-275-97877-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-275-97877-X">0-275-97877-X</a>, pp. 106, 293 note 26, 167-168, 172.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStanton1898" class="citation book cs1">Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1898). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/eightyyearsandm00stangoog"><i>Eighty years and more (1815-1897): Reminiscences of Elizabeth Cady Stanton</i></a>. 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Anthony</i></a>. Indianapolis: Hollenbeck Press. pp. 104–105.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Life+and+Work+of+Susan+B.+Anthony&rft.place=Indianapolis&rft.pages=104-105&rft.pub=Hollenbeck+Press&rft.date=1898%2F1908&rft.aulast=Harper&rft.aufirst=Ida+Husted&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2Flifeandworksusa00unkngoog%23page%2Fn155%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Henry+Channing" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChappleShelston2004" class="citation book cs1">Chapple, John; Shelston, Alan, eds. (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=NZaNtFTA6LAC&pg=PA168"><i>Further Letters of Mrs. Gaskell</i></a>. Manchester University Press. p. 168. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-71906-771-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-71906-771-6"><bdi>978-0-71906-771-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Further+Letters+of+Mrs.+Gaskell&rft.pages=168&rft.pub=Manchester+University+Press&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=978-0-71906-771-6&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DNZaNtFTA6LAC%26pg%3DPA168&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Henry+Channing" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWirzbicki2021" class="citation book cs1">Wirzbicki, Peter (2021). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=PMIXEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA137"><i>Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery</i></a>. 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