Francis William Pitt Greenwood (1797-1843) was a Unitarian

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 minister of King's Chapel

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 in Boston

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, Massachusetts

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 in the 19th-century.

Biography

Born in Boston, Greenwood graduated from Harvard College

Harvard College

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 in 1814. After studying theology for a time, he became pastor of Boston's New South Church

New South Church (Boston, Massachusetts)

New South Church was a congregational unitarian church of the "New South Society" in Boston, Massachusetts, located on "Church Green" at the corner of Summer Street and Bedford Street. Pastors included Samuel Checkley and John Thornton Kirkland. In 1814 architect Charles Bulfinch designed a new...

. He then travelled in Europe.

He returned to the United States and worked as editor for the Unitarian Miscellany in Baltimore, ca.1823-1824.

In 1824, he "became associate minister of King's Chapel." He wrote for and edited the Christian Examiner

Christian Examiner

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. Greenwood's writing was also published in the Boston Journal of Natural History

Boston Journal of Natural History

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; The Token and Atlantic Souvenir

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; and elsewhere.

He died August 2, 1843, at the age of 46, due to illness.

Works by Greenwood

• A Sermon delivered on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Boston Female Asylum
  Boston Female Asylum
  The Boston Female Asylum was an orphanage in Boston, Massachusetts, "for the care of indigent girls." Its mission was to "receive ... protect ... and instruct ... female orphans until the age of 10 years, when they are placed in respectable families."-History:The Asylum incorporated in 1803....
  
  , Sept. 23, 1825.
• Greenwood and G.B. Emerson, eds. The classical reader. 1826.
• Funeral sermon on the late Hon. Christopher Gore
  Christopher Gore
  Christopher Gore was a prominent Massachusetts lawyer, Federalist politician, and diplomat.-Biography:Gore was born in Boston in 1758, the tenth of thirteen children of Frances and John Gore, a successful merchant and artisan...
  
  : formerly governor of Massachusetts. Preached at King's Chapel, Boston, March 11, 1827. Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1827.
• Lives of the twelve apostles. 1828. 2nd ed., 1835. 3rd ed., 1846.
• A History of King's Chapel, in Boston. 1833.
• Spring. The Token and Atlantic Souvenir. 1838.
• Memoir of the Rev. James Freeman
  James Freeman (clergyman)
  James Freeman was the minister of King's Chapel in Boston for 43 years and the first preacher in America to call himself a Unitarian...
  
  . Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 1836.
• A Description of the principal fruits of Cuba. Boston Journal of Natural History, Volume 2. 1839.
• The Sea. The Boston Book, Volume 3. Boston: Light and Horton, 1841.
• Sermons to Children. Boston: James Munroe, 1841.
• The Spirit's Song of Consolation. American common-place book of poetry. 1841.

Works about Greenwood

• N.L. Frothingham
  Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham
  Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham was an American Unitarian minister and pastor of the First Church of Boston from 1815 to 1850. Frothingham was opposed to Theodore Parker and the interjection of transcendentalism into the church...
  
  . Sermon preached in King's Chapel, August 4, 1843, the Sunday after the funeral of the Rev. F.W.P. Greenwood. 1843.
• Greenwood's miscellaneous writings. Christian examiner and religious miscellany. Nov. 1846.
• New American cyclopaedia: a popular dictionary of general knowledge, Volume 8. NY: D. Appleton and Co., 1860; p.487-488.
• Lamb's biographical dictionary of the United States, Volume 3. Boston: James H. Lamb Co., 1900; p.405-406.

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