Draft:Horatio Stebbins
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Horatio Stebbins held a leadership role in the creation of the University of California and was minister of the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco. He served as pastor from 1864 until 1898, when he was made pastor emeritus. He is the father of economist and academic Lucy Ward Stebbins.
He was born on August 8, 1821 in Wilbraham, Massachusetts.
He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, and then went to Harvard College, entering the Junior Class in 1846, and graduating in 1848 as chaplain. He then earned a degree from Harvard Divinity School in 1851. Bowdoin College conferred a Doctor of Divinity degree in 1869[1].
Stebbins became pastor the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco upon the death of Rev. Thomas Starr King. Like King, Stebbins was a strong advocate of the Union during the American Civil War.
Stebbins was president of the trustees of the College of California which was later combined to create the University of California in Berkeley. He served for twenty-six years as a regent of the University of California. He was also a trustee of the Lick School of Mechanical Arts and a trustee of the San Francisco Home for the Care of the Inebriate.
In later life, Stebbins moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts and died there on April 8, 1902.
References[edit]
- ^ Murdock, Charles A. Horatio Stebbins: His Ministry and His Personality Boston: Houghton and Mifflin, 1921.
General references[edit]
- Stebbins, Roderick. "Stebbins, Horatio (1821-1902)". Harvard Square Library. Retrieved 20 December 2023.