HALE, EDWARD EVERETT (182 American author, was born in Boston April 3, 1822. He was of a distin guished family, his father being proprietor and editor of the Bos ton Daily Advertiser; his uncle, Edward Everett, the orator and statesman ; and his great-uncle, Nathan Hale, the martyr spy. He graduated from Harvard in I 839 ; studied theology privately while teaching at the Boston Latin School ; began to preach in 1842 ; and became pastor of the church of the Unity, Worcester (Mass.) (1846-56), and of the South Congregational (Unitarian) church, Boston, in 1856. While he was pastor emeritus of the latter church he was named in 1903 chaplain of the United States Senate. He died at Roxbury (Boston, Mass.), June 1909. His forceful personality, organizing genius, and liberal practical theology, to gether with his deep interest in the anti-slavery movement, popular education, and the working-man's home, were active for half a century in raising the tone of American life. He was a voluminous contributor to newspapers and magazines, an editor of several periodicals, and the author or editor of more than sixty books fiction, travel, sermons, biography, and history. He first came into notice as a writer in 1859, when he contributed the short story "My Double and How He Undid Me" to the Atlantic Monthly. He afterwards published in the same periodical other tales, the best known of which was "The Man Without a Country" (1863), which did much to strengthen the Union cause, and in which, as in some of his other non-romantic tales, he employed a minute realism which has led his readers to suppose the narrative a record of fact. The story Ten Times One Is Ten (1870) led to the formation among young people of "Lend-a-Hand Societies" and "Harry Wadsworth Clubs." Out of the romantic story of the Waldenses, In His Name (1873), there similarly grew several other organizations for religious work, such as the "King's Daugh ters." Among Hale's other books are Kanzas and Nebraska prepared as a contribution to the Kansas Crusade; If, Yes, and Perhaps (1868), stories and essays; The Ingham Papers (1869) ; His Level Best and Other Stories (187o) ; Sybaris and Other Homes (1869) ; Philip Nolan's Friends (1876), a sequel to The Man Without a Country; Christmas in Narragansett (1884) ; East and West (1892 ; also published as The New Ohio) ; For Fifty Years (1893), poems; Ralph Waldo Emerson (1899) ; and W e, the People (1903) . The most charming books of his later years were A New England Boyhood (1893), James Russell Lowell and His Friends (1899) and Memories of a Hundred Years 0902). His Works, in ten volumes, appeared in 1898-1901.
See E. E. Hale, Jr., The Life and Letters of Edward Everett Hale (1917)•