William Ellery Channing

b. Newport, RI, April 7, 1780
d. Bennington, VT, October 2, 1842


Bibliography

"Death of the Rev. Dr. Channing" Newport Mercury, 8 October 1842. 

"Local Matters - The Channing Church Corner Stone," Newport Mercury, 3 April 1880. 

"William Ellery Channing," Newport Mercury, 3 April 1880. 

"The Channing Centennial," Newport Mercury, 10 April 1880. 

"The Channing Memorial Church," Newport Mercury, 22 October 1881. 

Carpenter, Rev. Frank. "Paradise Held: William Ellery Channing and the Legacy of Oakland," Newport History: Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society. Newport: Newport Historical Society. Vol.65, Part 3, No.224 (Winter 1994). 

Downing, Antoinette F. and Vincent J. Scully, Jr. The Architectural Heritage of Newport, Rhode Island 1640-1918, 2nd ed. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1967.500. 

Early Religious Leaders of Newport.  Newport: The Newprot Historical Society, 1918. 125-148.

Johnson, Allen and Dumas Malone.  "Channing, William Ellery" in Dictionary of American Biography.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. Vol. 4:  4-7. 

Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer. Reminiscences of Rev. Wm. Ellery Channing, D. D. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1880. 

The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Rhode Island. Providence: National Biographical Publishing Co., 1881. 203,204. 

Image from:
Channing's portrait painted in 1839 by Gambardella

Mendelsohn, Jack, Channing: The Reluctant Radical: A Biography, Little, Brown, & Company, 1971. 



Links

1) Channing Quotes at Columbia University

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