Independent minister. Lecturer. Editor. Born in Cardiganshire County, South Wales, November 4. 1843. Parents moved to Wisconsin when he was an infant. He worked on their farm until 1862. Was private in the 6th Wisconsin Battery, and was three years in the Civil War. Was a graduate of Meadville, Pennsylvania Theological Seminary in 1870. Was pastor of All Souls Church, Janesville, Wisconsin. Was secretary of the Unitarian Conference for nine years. Organized, and was first secretary of, the Unitarian S. S. Society in 1878, and with others established Unity, a weekly paper, a new organ of the Congress of Religions, and has been its editor since 1879.

Organized, and since 1882 has been pastor of, All Souls Church, Chicago. Secretary of the World’s Parliament of Religions in Illinois. Was its general secretary, and was president of Illinois Sate Conference of Charities. Lecturer in English extension department, University of Chicago. President of Tower Hill Summer School of Literature and Religion. Founder and first president of the Chicago 2Browning Society. Author of The Faith That Makes the Faithful; With William C. Gannett, 1886; Practical Piety, 1890; Word of the Spirit, 1897; Bits of Wayside Gospel, 1899; A Search for an Infidel; Bits of Wayside Gospel, 2nd Series 1901; Nuggets from a Welsh Mine, 1902. Address: 3939 Langley Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.