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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

John Thornton Kirkland (1770–1840)

Kirkland, John Thornton. A distinguished American Unitarian divine, educator, and biographer; born in New York State, 1770; died in 1840. He was president of Harvard University (1810–27). He wrote: ‘Life of Fisher Ames’; ‘Eulogy of General Washington.’