Charles Kittredge True

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Charles Kittredge True (1809-78) was an American Methodist Episcopal clergyman, educator, and author, born in Portland, Me. He graduated at Harvard in 1832. He served as professor of intellectual and moral science in Wesleyan University (1849-60), and financial agent of Wesleyan (1870-73). He was the father of A. C. True, and he published:

• The Elements of Logic (1840)
• Shawmut; or, the Settlement of Boston by the Puritan Pilgrims (1845)
• John Winthrop and the Great Colony (1875)
• The Life and Times of Sir Walter Raleigh (1877)
• The Life and Times of John Knox (1878)
• Memoirs of John Howard (1878)
• The Thirty Years' War (1878)
• Heroes of Holland (1882)
• Life of Captain John Smith (1882)