Emerson, George Homer, 1822-1898

George Homer Emerson (1822-1898) was an American Universalist minister who spent much of his career as a denominational editor. He conducted the Ohio Universalist and Literary Companion in Cleveland in the mid-1840s, assisted Hosea Ballou 2d with the Universalist Quarterly in the later 1850s and edited it himself from 1858 to 1864, and afterward edited leading Universalist weeklies, including The Universalist and, from 1879, the Christian Leader in Boston. At the request of the alumni of the Canton Theological School he wrote the Memoir of Ebenezer Fisher (1880), and he also published The Doctrine of Probation Examined (1883).

Ebenezer Fisher headed the Canton Theological School at St. Lawrence University from its opening in 1858 until his death in 1879, personally training a large share of the Universalist ministers of his era. Emerson's memoir follows him from the Maine coast through his pastorates to Canton, drawing on his letters and the recollections of his students to portray the teacher who, more than anyone, shaped the denomination's educated ministry.

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