Author: Loveland, Samuel Chapman
Biography:
Loveland, Samuel Chapman (1787-1858: DUUB)
As the author of only one three-page poem included in this bibliography (as a companion to a work by John Peck, q.v.), Loveland does not really qualify for a biography, but it can be brief. He was a farmer's son, born in Gilsum NH. When he was seven, his parents Sarah (Chapman) and Israel Loveland were converted to the Universalist sect. Loveland prepared for the ministry, was ordained in 1814, and began his career as a pastor and leader in Vermont. He and his wife Eunice Stow, whom he married in 1817, had nine children, one of whom also became a Universalist minister. Loveland engaged through correspondence and pamphlet publication with religious differences within his church; there is also one other verse publication, an eight-page elegy for a member of his flock. He established a periodical, the Christian Repository, and a regional Universalist Association. At his school in Reading VT he trained young men for the professions. He published a Greek New Testament Lexicon in 1828 and was awarded an honorary MA from Middlebury College. He was elected to the state legislature in 1824-5 and 1827-8. His final posting was in South Hartford NY in 1857. (Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography: duub.org 25 Nov. 2019)