Ezra Stiles Gannett
Introduction Dr. Ezra S. Gannett'''Ezra Stiles Gannett''' (May 4, 1801–August 26, 1871) was a Unitarian minister in Boston, Massachusetts.The grandson of Yale University president Ezra Stiles, he was graduated from Harvard College, and in 1824 he began working for the Federal Street Church; he remained with the congregation for the duration of his career. In 1861 he moved with his congregation to a new building, the Arlington Street Church in Back Bay. He was also associated with the American Unitarian Association. "He was a Unitarian of the more conservative type, an excellent preacher, and an ardent reformer." Reverend Gannett was killed in a train wreck a few miles north of Boston, Massachusetts on August 26, 1871.Gannett is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery. He was the great-grandfather of author Ruth Stiles Gannett and the father of writer and social reformer Kate Gannett Wells.
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Further reading Gannett marker in Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. ;Works by Gannett:*  Relation of the North to slavery: A discourse preached in the Federal Street Church. 1854. * A discourse delivered in the meetinghouse on Church Green: Boston, on Monday, March 20, 1854, at the funeral of the late Rev. Alexander Young, D.D., pastor of the New South Church. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Co., 1854. *  National Commercial Convention: a discourse delivered in the Arlington-street Meeting-house, in Boston, on Sunday, Feb. 16, 1868.;Works about Gannett:* Ezra Stiles Gannett, D.D. New York Times, August 28, 1871; p. 4. * Calvin Lincoln. A discourse on the life and character of Rev. Ezra Stiles Gannett, D.D., delivered in the meeting-house of the first parish in Hingham. 1871. * James Freeman Clarke. Memorial and biographical sketches. 1878. * William Channing Gannett. Ezra Stiles Gannett, Unitarian minister in Boston, 1824-1871: a memoir. Boston: Roberts Bros., 1875.3rd ed., American Unitarian Association, 1893. * Samuel Atkins Eliot. Heralds of a liberal faith, Volume 3.1910. * Stuart Twite. Ezra Stiles Gannett. Unitarian Universalist Historical Society. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
External links * The  papers and  sermons of Ezra Stiles Gannett are in the Harvard Divinity School Library at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. * *