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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mather, cotton 1663-1728 (search)
Mather, cotton 1663-1728 Clergyman; born in Boston, Feb. 12, 1663; was one of the most notable of the early New England divines. He graduated at Harvard in 1678, was employed several years in teaching, and was ordained a minister in May, 1684, as colleague of his father, Dr. Increase Mather. The doctrine of special providence he carried to excess. He was credulous and superstitious, and believed he was doing God service by witch-hunting. His Wonders of the invisible world (1692) gives an account of the trials of witchcraft. In 1700 he published More wonders, and seems never to have relinquished his belief in witches and witchcraft. Aside from this peculiarity, he was a most sincere, earnest, indefatigable Christian worker, engaging in every good work; and he was the first to employ the press extensively in this country in the dissemination of tracts treating of temperance, religion, and social morals. He preached and wrote for sailors, Indians, Cotton Mather. and negro
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
thly, and was joint editor with Professor Norton of the North American Review. Fireside travels appeared in 1864; a second series of Biglow papers (1866); Under the Willows (1869); Among my books (1870); and My study Windows (1871). He was minister to Spain, and later was transferred to England. Democracy and other addresses was issued in 1887; Heartsease and Rue (1888); and Political essays (1888). He died in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 12, 1891. Mather, Cotton Born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 12, 1663. Graduating from Harvard in 1678, he studied theology and became minister of the North Church in Boston. He was one of the leaders in the movement against witchcraft, and in justification of his attitude wrote The Wonders of the invisible world (1692). He also published, among many volumes, Memorable Providences relating to witchcraft And possessions (1685); Essays to do good (1710); but is best known by his Magnalia Christi Americana; or, the Ecclesiastical history of New England (17