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Samuel Longfellow (June 18, 1819 – October 3, 1892) was an American clergyman and hymn writer. Biography. Samuel Longfellow was born June 18, 1819, in Portland, Maine, the last of eight children of Stephen and Zilpah (Wadsworth) Longfellow. [1] . His older brother was the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He studied at Bowdoin College in 1833. [2] .
Samuel Longfellow was born June 13, 1819, in Portland, Maine. He was the youngest of eight children. His father was a Harvard classmate of Dr. Channing and Judge Story, a cultured and high-minded gentleman; the mother, a direct descendant of the John Alden and Priscilla of Henry’s “Courtship of Miles Standish.”.
Samuel Longfellow was the youngest brother of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a minister, abolitionist, and biographer. He lived in various places in the U.S. and Europe, and wrote hymns and a biography of his brother.
Samuel was a minister, and abolitionist, pacifist, and a supporter of women’s rights. Whenever his ministerial duties or travels didn’t take him away, Samuel Longfellow lived at the Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House, and he was by all accounts a constant and beloved presence in the home.
Zilpah Wadsworth. Relatives. Samuel Longfellow (brother) Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr. (nephew) Signature. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", "The Song of Hiawatha", and "Evangeline".
24 de jul. de 2023 · Edgar Allan Poe attacked Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for plagiarism in 1845, after rejecting his poems in 1841. The article explores the causes and consequences of their literary war and the role of Outis, a defender of Longfellow.
Longfellow, Samuel, B. A., brother of the Poet, was born at Portland, Maine, June 18, 1819, and educated at Harvard, where he graduated in Arts in 1839, and in Theology in 1846. On receiving ordination as an Unitarian Minister, he became Pastor at Fall River, Massachusetts, 1848; at Brooklyn, 1853; and at Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1860.
