William Ellery Channing (1818 - 1901)

Born 29 Nov 1818 in Boston, Massachusetts

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Died 23 Dec 1901 at age 83 in Concord, Massachusetts

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Biography

Ellery Channing is Notable.

William Ellery Channing was a Transcendentalist poet, nephew of the Unitarian preacher Dr. William Ellery Channing. ^[1]

Channing was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Dr. Walter Channing, a physician and Harvard Medical School professor. He attended Boston Latin School and later the Round Hill School in Northampton, Massachusetts, then entered Harvard University in 1834, but did not graduate. In 1839 he lived for some months in Woodstock, Illinois in a log hut that he built; in 1840 he moved to Cincinnati. In the fall of 1842 he married Ellen Fuller, the younger sister of transcendentalist Margaret Fuller.^[1]

He was a close friend of David Thoreau and Channing was the first biographer of Thoreau, publishing Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist.^[1]

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1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ellery_Channing_(poet)

• Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.

• Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

• Find A Grave: William Ellery Channing

See Also:

• Channing, William E. William Ellery Channing Letters, 1836-1845