John W. Chadwick

CHADWICK, John White. b. Marblehead, Massachusetts, 19 October 1840; d. Brooklyn, New York, 11 December 1904. Born into a poor family, John Chadwick scraped together an education at the Normal School at Bridgewater, and then graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1864. He served the Second Unitarian Church in Brooklyn, New York, for forty years until his death there. Chadwick’s poetry was published in A Book of Poems (1876); In Nazareth Town and Other Poems (1883); A Legend of Good Poets (1885); and A Few Verses (1900). His Harvard graduation poem, ‘Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round’*, written during the Civil War, was one of several hymns for special occasions, such as ‘O Thou whose...