Courtesy of Williams College. | Born: February 11, 1836, Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania. Died: July 2, 1918, Columbus, Ohio. Buried: Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio. |
Gladden’s birth name is variously reported as Solomon Washington Gladden or George Washington Gladden, but he later dropped the the first name His father, a school teacher, died when Washington was a young boy, and the family moved to New York. He married Elizabeth Shores in 1852, and entered the Oswego Academy in 1855, and Williams College in 1859. After working as a newspaper reporter, he became an ordained minister and pastored in Brooklyn, New York; Morrisania, New York; North Adams, Massachusetts; Springfield, Massachusetts; and Columbus, Ohio. In Columbus, he was pastor of the First Congregational Church for 32 years. In 1891, he was a delegate to the international congress of Congregationalists in London. He was also moderator of the Congregational Church in America, helped settle an anthracite coal strike in 1902, and was known as a social reformer. His works include:
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