History of Warwick, (Franklin County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Amory Dwight Mayo, clergyman and educationist, was born in Warwick, Mass., Jan. 31, 1823; son of Amory and Sophronia (Cobb) Mayo; grandson of Caleb and Molly Mayo and of William and Beulah Cobb, and a descendant of the Rev. John Mayo, first minister of the Second church of Boston, Mass., 1655. He was a student at Deerfield academy, Mass., and at Amherst college, 1843-44. He taught in the public schools of Massachusetts, 1839-44; studied for the Liberal Christian ministry under the Rev. Hosea Ballou, 1844-46, and was pastor of the Independent Christian society, the first Universalist church in the United States, in Gloucester, Mass., 1846-54. He was married, first, July 28, 1846, to Sarah Carter Edgarton of Shirley, Mass., and secondly, in December, 1853, to Lucy Caroline Clarke of New Brighton, Pa. He was pastor of the Liberal Christian church at Cleveland, Ohio, 1854-55; of the Division Street church at Albany, N.Y., 1856-63; of the Church of the Redeemer (Unitarian), Cincinnati, Ohio, 1863-72, and of the Church of the Unity (Unitarian), Springfield, Mass., 1872-79. He was professor of ecclesiastical polity and a lecturer in Meadville Theological school, Pa., 1868-98. From 1880 he held no parish, residing chiefly in Washington, D.C., but retaining his citizenship in Massachusetts and residing in Boston during the summer. He devoted himself to educational work, especially in the southern states. He was a member of the board of education in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1863-72, and in Springfield, Mass., 1872-79. He strongly urged the use of the Bible in the public schools and the proposed Christian amendment to the U.S. constitution. He received the honorary degrees, A.M. from Amherst, 1874, and LL.D. from Berea college, Ky., 1897. He lectured in thirty states and was associate editor and editorial writer of the New England and National Journal of Education in Boston, 1880-86. He contributed largely to educational periodical literature and is the author of: The Balance; or the Moral Argument for Universalism (1847); Graces and Powers of the Christian Life (1850); Symbols of the Capital, or Civilization in New York (1859); Religion in Common Schools (1869); Talks with Teachers (1878); Industrial Education in the South (1882); Southern Women in the Recent Educational Movement in the South (1885); History of the Ameican Common School, appearing in the reports of the U.S. bureau of education from 1893. He also edited a volume of selections from his first wife's writings, with a memoir (1849).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, poet, was born in Warwick, Mass., June 25; 1803. He was educated in the public schools and in Brown university, but was not graduated on account of illness. He spent several years as a tutor in Georgia and South Carolina, and in 1825 went to England as correspondent for New York papers. He returned to the United States in July, 1826, and lived in Elizabeth, N.J., in Boston, Mass., and in other cities. He was master of the Newtown academy, near Philadelphia, in 1828, and published and edited in Philadelphia the North American Magazine, 1833-38. He was married in 1826 to Jane Frazee, and in 1846 she published his Life. The more important of his published works are: Lays of Melpomene (1824); The Sisters of St. Clara (1827); Cities of the Plain (1828); Heir of the World (1828); Abaddon, the Spirit of Destruction (1830); The Last Night of Pompeii (1832); Poems and Prose Writings (1840); and Select Poems (1860). He died in New Orleans, La., March 6, 1844.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor