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DEXTER, Henry, sculptor, was born in Nel-
son, Madison county, N.Y., Oct. 11, 1806.. He
learned the trade of a blacksmith in Pomfret,
Conn. , and after working at it for several years
removed to Providence, R.I. He had early
evinced a strong artistic talent, and in Providence
he acquired some reputation as a painter of por-
traits. He removed to Boston in 1836, and to
Cambridge, Mass., in 1837, studying painting and
sculpture, and finally devoting his whole atten-
tion to sculpture. His first work was a marble
bust of Samuel Eliot, mayor of Boston. In 1860
he visited every state in the Union, and modelled
busts of the chief executives of everj^ state except-
ing California and Oregon. The collection, in-
tended for the capitol at Washington, was never
placed there,
owing ^ to the
interruption of
the civil war.
Among his
better known works are:
busts of Dick- ens, Agassiz and Longfel- low; The Binney Child in Mount Auburn ceme- tery, suijposed to be the first marble statue made in the United States; The Backii-oodsmen (1847); The Cushing Children (1848); General Joseph Warren at Bunker Hill (1857); and Nymph of the Ocean (1870). He died in Cambridge, Mass.. June 23, 187p.
DEXTER, Henry Martyn, clergjonan, was born at Plymptozi. Mass., Aug. 13, 1821. He was gi-aduated from Yale in 1840 and from Andover theological .seminary in 1844. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry Nov. 9, 1844, and preached at Manchester, N.H., 1844-49; and at the Pine (afterward Berkeley) Street Congrega- tional church, Boston, 1849-67. He was editor of the Congregationalist, 1851-66, and of the Congre- gational Quarterly, 1859-66. In 1867 the Congrega- tionalist was combined with the Becorder, and Mr. Dexter became editor-in-chief, resigning his pastorate to devote his whole time to the work. He preached at Dorchester, Mass., 1869-71, and delivered lectures at Andover theological semi- nary, 1877-80. He was made a member of the American antiquarian society in 1869; of the Massachusetts historical society in 1869, and of the American historical association in 1884. He received the degree of A.M. from Brown in 1863; that of D.D. from Iowa college in 1865, and from Yale in 1880; and that of LL.D. from Yale in 1890. His published works include: The Moral Influence of Manufacturing Towns (1848); TTip.
JUaaa^ (y\AyO-€-)iyte^
Temperance Duties of the Temperate (1850;; Our
Xntional Condition and its Remedy (1856) , 2"he
Voice of the Bible the Verdict of Beason (1858);
Street Thoughts (1859); Twelve Discourses (1860);
What Ought to be Done with the Freedmen and the
Bebels (1865); Congregationalism (1865); The Ver-
dict of Beason upon the
Fiiture Punishment of
Those tcho Die Impeni-
tent (1865); A Glance
at the Ecclesiastical
Councils of New Eng-
land (1867); The
Church Polity of the
Pilgrims .the Polity of
the New Testament
(1870); Pilgrim Mem-
oranda (1870); As to
Boger Williams and his
Banishment from the
Massachusetts Colony
(1876): The Congrega-
tionalism of the Last
Three Hundred Years
as Seen in its Literature
(with a bibliographical Appendix of 7250 titles,
1880); A Handbook of Congregationalism (1880);
Boger Williams's Christenings make not Christians:
a Long-lost Tract Bccovered and Exactly Beprinted
and Edited (1881); llie True Story of John Smyth,
the Se-Baptist (1881); Common Sense as to Woman
Suffrage (1885); Early English Exiles in Amsterdam
(1890);and Elder Brewster's Library (1890); besides
many contributions to cyclopsedias and period-
icals, a manuscript Bibliography of the Church
Struggle in England during the Sixteenth Century;
and an unfinished Study of the English, and Dutch
Life of the Plymouth Men. He left to Yale 2000
volumes on the New England Puritans. He died
in New Bedford, Mass., Nov. 13, 1890.
DEXTER, Samuel, merchant, was born in Dedhani, Mass., in 1726; son of the Rev. Samuel Dexter, A.M., Harvard, 1720, who died in 1755. He was brought up to a business life in Boston and became wealthy. He was prominent in the opposition to the British ministry, and opposed the policy of Bernard and Hutchinson while a member of the governor's council, 1765-75. After 1776 he was one of the supreme council of the state. He devoted much time to historical study and religious investigations, and he became an avowed Arminian. He left §5000 to Harvard col- lege for the encouragement of Biblical criticism. He died in Mendon, Mass., in 1810.
DEXTER, Samuel, cabinet oflScer, was born in Boston, Mass., May 14. 1761; son of Samuel Dexter, and grandson of the Rev. Samuel Dexter. He was graduated at Harvard in 1781 and was admitted to the bar in 1784. He practised in Worcester
