Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch

BULFINCH, Stephen Greenleaf. b. Boston, Massachusetts, 18 June 1809; d. East Cambridge, Mass., 12 October 1870. He was the son of an eminent architect, who designed the National Capitol in Washington, DC, so that Stephen grew up in Washington from the age of nine; he was educated at Columbia College there, and in 1813 graduated from the Cambridge Theological School, Cambridge, Mass. (later Harvard Divinity School). He became a Unitarian minister in 1831, serving at Charleston, South Carolina (1831-37), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1837-38), Washington, DC (1838-45), Nashua, New Hampshire (1845-52), Dorchester, now part of Boston (1852-65), and East Cambridge, Mass. (1865 until his death). He...