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Title: Forty immortals of Worcester & its county : A brief account of those natives or residents who have accomplished something for their community or for the nation
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Worcester Bank & Trust Company, Worcester, Mass Walton Advertising and Printing Company, Boston
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Publisher: (Boston, Mass., Walton advertising & printing company)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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school, studied theology, and, after secur-ing a license to preach, went to Nova Scotia for three years as a mission-ary. He returned to the United States in 1785, and the following yearassumed his duties as clergyman. He was ordained minister of the Congregational Church at Worcester,where he remained for more than half a century—until his death. Someyears after his settlement in Worcester, Dr. Bancroft became a student ofthe Arminian principles, forerunners of the broader Unitarian doctrinethat was preached in Boston early in the last century. His sermons indefence of religious liberty were more or less criticised, and his publishedpamphlets—thirty-six in all—were widely read and discussed. He hasbeen called no bigot, but a lover of liberty, rational as well as ardent.His children were brought up to view both sides of a question. One ofhis children while away at school wrote her father asking what were hisviews on eternal punishment. By way of answer, Dr. Bancroft sent her 19
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FORTY IMMORTALS of WORCESTER & ITS COUNTY the three best treatises on the three most important theories. At anothertime, one of his daughters read Dr. Channings Letters to Dr. Worces-ter. When the matter came under discussion she was asked by herfather if she had not read Dr. Worcesters Letters to Dr. Channing.The girl made some slighting remark concerning the work mentioned byDr. Bancroft. What! said he, indignantly. Are you a daughter of mine and doyou read only one side of the question? In 1807, Dr. Bancroft published his best-known historical work, TheLife of Washington. For thirty years he served on the board of trusteesof Leicester Academy and was for a long time its president; he was presi-dent of the Worcester County Bible Society, and of the American Uni-tarian Society from its origin in 1825 until 1836; he was a fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1810 Harvard conferredon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. When under fire of the criti-cism that assa

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