Amory Dwight Mayo

Amory Dwight Mayo (1823-1907) was an American clergyman and educational reformer, born in Warwick, Massachusetts. After studying theology privately, he served Universalist and later Unitarian congregations in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and in Cleveland, Albany, Cincinnati, and Springfield, and held a long nonresident professorship at Meadville Theological School. From about 1880 he devoted himself to promoting public education, traveling and lecturing extensively throughout the southern United States. In 1846 he married the Universalist writer Sarah C. Edgarton; after her death in 1848 he edited a volume of her writings with a memoir.

Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo edited the Ladies' Repository — the Universalist women's magazine — and was the denomination's leading female literary voice when she died in 1848, at twenty-eight, within a year of her marriage. Her husband, the minister A. D. Mayo, gathered her essays, poems, and letters with a tender memoir. The volume preserves both a gifted writer cut off early and a picture of the literary culture Universalist women built for themselves in the 1840s.

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