Reverend Samuel Longfellow

Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine to Stephen and Zilpah (Wadsworth) Longfellow; he is the younger brother of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He attended Harvard College and Harvard Divinity School, where his classmates included Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Samuel Johnson; he would later collaborate with Johnson in his hymn-writing. He is considered part of the second-generation of transcendentalists;[1] after becoming a Unitarian pastor, he adapted the Transcendental philosophy he had encountered in divinity school into his hymns and sermons. He served as a pastor in Fall River, Massachusetts (1848), Brooklyn, New York (1853), and Germantown, Pennsylvania (1860).

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Fitchburg, MA: Fitchburg Daily Sentinel, issue of Tuesday, 4 October 1892, p. 8, cols. 1-2

PREACHER AND WRITER.

Death of Rev. Samuel Longfellow, Brother of the Poet.

PORTLAND, Me., Oct. 4.--Rev. Samuel Longfellow died here yesterday. Mr. Longfellow was born in this city June 18, 1819, was graduated at Harvard in 1839 and at the divinity school there in 1846. He first accepted a call to a church at Fall River in 1848, but in 1853 became the pastor of a Unitarian congregation in Brooklyn. In 1860 he resigned his charge and went abroad. On his return he resided at Cambridge, Mass., continuing to preach, but having no pastoral charge till in 1878 he became the minister of a church in Germantown, Pa. In 1882 he again returned to Cambridge. In addition to writing several essays that appeared in The Radical, and many hymns that have a place in other collections than his own, he compiled, in association with Rev. Samuel Johnson, "A Book of Hymns," revised edition entitled "Hymns of the Spirit." He published a "Book of Hymns and Tunes" for congregational use, and a small volume for the vesper service that he had instituted. He was also the editor, in connection with T.W. Higginson, of "Thalatta: a Book for the Seaside," a collection of poetry, purely original. His latest publications were the "Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" and "Final Memorials of Henry W. Longfellow." His home was in Cambridge, Mass. He was a brother of the poet.

EDITORIAL POINTS.

REV. SAMUEL LONGFELLOW, brother of the poet, loved children, honored women, despised bigotry and had an abiding faith in humanity. In the sunshine of this faith he made his life indeed sublime.

Longfellow's Brother Buried.

PORTLAND, Me., Oct. 5.--The funeral of Rev. Samuel Longfellow took place at the First Parish church this afternoon. Services were conducted by Rev. J.C. Perkins. Members of the family present were his brother, Alexander Longfellow, and two sisters, Mrs. Ann Pierce and Mrs. James Greenleaf. The burial was in the family tomb in Western cemetery, this city. __________________________________