Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham

FROTHINGHAM, Nathaniel Langdon. b. Boston, Massachusetts, 23 July 1793; d. Boston, 4 April 1870. He was educated at the Latin school in Boston and Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1811, at the age of 18. He became a ‘preceptor’, studied divinity, and was ordained as minister of the First Church (Unitarian), Boston, in 1815. He married Ann Gorham Brooks, of Boston, in 1818. He received the degree of DD from Harvard College in 1836 (Putnam, 1875, p. 88). He was minister of First Church until 1850, though making two voyages to Europe in search of good health in 1826 and 1849. After retirement he made a further visit to Europe in 1859-60, with his wife and daughters. In later years...