John White Chadwick

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John White Chadwick, A.M. (1840-1904) was an American clergyman of the Unitarian Church.

He was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and graduated in 1864 from Harvard Divinity School.

He was a shoemaker early in his life, yet he became known as one of the leading preachers of his denomination.

Some of his discourses, literary works, and publications were extensively read. They include:

  • Some Aspects of Religion, (1879)
  • Belief and Life (1881)
  • Origin and Destiny (1883)
  • A Daring Faith (1885)
  • A Book of Poems (1876; seventh edition, 1885)
  • In Nazareth Town; A Christmas Fantasy and Other Poems (1883)
  • A Few Verses (1900)
  • Later Poems (1905)
  • The B.b.r of To-Day (1875)
  • The Faith of Reason (1879)
  • Old and New Unitarian Belief (1894)
  • Theodore Parker, Preacher, Reformer (1900)
  • William Ellery channing, Minister of Religion (1903)
  • Cap'n Chadwick, Marblehead Skipper and Shoemaker (1906)