William Wallace Fenn
American Unitarian minister, Harvard Divinity School dean
About William Wallace Fenn
Lived 1862 – 1932 (aged 69–70). William Wallace Fenn was an American theologian and clergyman.
William Wallace Fenn (February 12, 1862 – March 6, 1932) was a Unitarian minister and a dean of Harvard Divinity School. He served the First Unitarian Church of Chicago from 1890–1901.
He gave the 1921 The Ingersoll Lectures on Human Immortality.
Biography William Wallace Fenn was born in Boston on February 12, 1862. He graduated from Harvard in 1884 and received an AM and STB (bachelor of sacred theology) from the Divinity School in 1887.
He married Faith Huntington Fisher in 1891, daughter of Ellen Thayer Fisher, and they had five children.
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American Unitarian minister, Harvard Divinity School dean
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