Edwin Courtland Bolles

Edwin Courtlandt Bolles (1836-1920) was born in Hartford, Connecticut, graduated from Trinity College in 1855, and was ordained a Universalist minister at the age of nineteen. He served congregations in New England, New York, and Louisiana, including a long pastorate in Salem, Massachusetts, and compiled the service book Prayers and Hymns for the Church and the Home (1873). He later joined Tufts College as a lecturer in its Divinity School, became Dickson Professor of English and American History in 1900 and the institution's first chaplain in 1905, and assembled a notable collection on the history of London that went to the Tufts library after his death in 1920.

The Universalist Publishing House printing of the Bolles–Washburn prayer book of 1865 (see that edition in this collection for a full account).

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