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Palfrey, John Gorham 1796-1881
Author; born in Boston, Mass., May 2, 1796; grandson of William Palfrey (1741-80); graduated at Harvard College in 1815; minister of Brattle Street Church, Boston, from 1818 to 1830; Dexter Professor of Sacred literature in Harvard; editor of the North American review from 1835 to 1843; member of the legislature of Massachusetts; and from 1844 to 1848 was secretary of state.
Mr. Palfrey is distinguished as a careful historian, as evinced by his History of New England to 1688 (3 volumes, 1858-64). He delivered courses of lectures before the Lowell Institute, and was an early and powerful anti-slavery writer.
He died in Cambridge, Mass., April 26, 1881.