Biography of William Henry Ryder

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By John Wesley Hanson. William Henry Ryder (1822-1888), born in Provincetown, MA, studied at the Pembroke Academy in NH and the Liberal Institute in Clinton, NY. He pastored various Universalist Churches (Concord and Nashua, NH; Roxbury, MA; Chicago, IL). He was an early abolitionist that organized an industrial school for African American children as an agency of his church in Chicago after the Civil War. He received honorary degrees from Harvard (1860) and Lombard University (1863).  “A too truthful axiom declares, ‘Few men are heroes to their valets.’ Most men look larger, their reputations loftier, and they more worthy, seen through the perspective of distance. But there are men who are loved most by those who know them best. Such a man was William Henry Ryder.” – J. W. Hanson. Facsimile. Paperback. 330 Pages.