Nationality United States Died 1910 Role Historian | Name Henry Dexter Religion Congregationalist Parents Henry Martyn Dexter | |
Born 1846 Manchester, New Hampshire Occupation clergyman, historian, editor Books The England and Holland of the Pilgrims, The Story of the Pilgrims Education Andover Newton Theological School, Yale University | ||
Henry Morton Dexter (1846–1910) was an American clergyman, historian, and editor.
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Life
He born in Manchester, New Hampshire, son of Henry Martyn Dexter. He graduated from Yale University in 1867, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1870, spent three years in travel, was ordained to the Congregational ministry, serving as pastor of the Union Church at Taunton, Massachusetts (1873–78). From 1878 to 1891, he was editor of The Congregationalist. During several visits to England and the Netherlands he made investigations particularly of the history of the Pilgrims and early American colonists, and he prominently promoted the erection of a memorial tablet to John Robinson at Leyden, Holland, in 1891. His work appeared in New England Magazine.