Richard Eddy (clergyman)
Richard Eddy, D.D. (21 June 1828 – 16 August 1906) was an American Universalist clergyman, born at Providence, R. I. He was a chaplain of the during the American Civil War. From 1877 to 1906 he was president of the and from 1886 to 1891 he was editor of the Universalist Register. He wrote:
- History of Universalism in America, 1636-1886 (1884–86)
- Alcohol in History (1887)
- Universalism in Gloucester, Mass. (1892)
- History of Universalism, 120-1890, A. D. (1894)
- Life of Thomas J. Sawyer, D. D., and Caroline M. Sawyer (1900)
External links[]
- The scrapbooks and autobiography of Richard Eddy is in the Andover-Harvard Theological Library at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Categories:
- Union Army chaplains
- 19th-century American historians
- 19th-century American male writers
- 1828 births
- 1906 deaths
- Clergy of the Universalist Church of America
- American Christian theologians
- 19th-century Christian universalists
- 20th-century Christian universalists
- 19th-century American clergy
- American male non-fiction writers
- American Civil War biography stubs