Convers Francis
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Convers Francis (1795-1863) was a Unitarian minister from Watertown, Massachusetts. Francis was the moderator of the Transcendental Club, which included members such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Margaret Fuller. Being one of the elders of the group, in fact the eldest member who was also a moderator of the Club, he influenced other members, including the Unitarian minister Theodore Parker. He studied to become a minister at Cambridge Divinity School. He was minister of the Watertown, Massachusetts, Unitarian Church from 1819 to 1842. Afterwards he was Parkman Professor of Pulpit Eloquence at Harvard. His books and writings include Christianity as a Purely Internal Principle and A Historical Sketch of Watertown (1830).
He died in 1863, one year after Transcendental Club co-member Henry David Thoreau died.
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