HALE, EDWARD EVERETT ( 1823— ). An American author, clergyman, and philanthropist, born of a well-known family in Boston, Mass., April 3, 1823. He was educated at the Boston Latin School, graduated at Harvard in 1839, and received an honorary degree forty years later. After a short period of tutoring be studied the ology, and was a Unitarian pastor at Worcester from 1846 to 1850. After that he preached in Boston, and took an active interest in all the philanthropic movements of his city and time. A collected edition of his works, in ten volumes, was completed in 1901, but it represents only a small portion of his literary work. He contrib uted voluminously to magazines and newspapers, and edited several of them; for example, the Christian Examiner and Old and New (1869-75), a magazine of which he was founder, and which finally was merged into Scribner's Monthly. lie also took great interest in history, and especially in Spanish-American affairs; contributed to Win sor's great cooperative histories; edited Lingard's England; and wrote a Chautauquan History of the United States (1887) ; a Life of 1Vashington (1887) ; Franklin in Prance, with his son, E. E.
Hale, Jr. (1887.88) ; and other kindred works. With his sister, Susan Hale, he wrote several volumes of travels. In A New England Boyhood (1893) and in James Russell Lowell and Ills Friends (1889), he gave his reminiscences of New England and New Englanders of the past. But lie is perhaps best known for his fiction, and especially for one short story, the famous and effective Man a Country, published anonymously in the Monthly in IS63, and collected with other stories in a volume five years afterwards. Another short story, My Double, and How He Undid Me, published in the same periodical in 1859, also attracted great at tention, as well as his "Skeleton in the Closet," which appeared in the Galaxy in 1866. But his most influential book is his Ten Times One is Ten (1870), which led to the formation of many charitable organizations — Lend - a - Hand clubs, King's Daughters, Look-up legions, and the like. Mention may also be made of an elaborate piece of historical fiction, Philip Nolan's Friends (1876), a romance of the early Southwest. His Memoirs of a Hundred Years appeared in 1902.