Collyer
ROBERT, an American clergyman; born in Keighley, Yorkshire, England, Dec. 8, 1823. He came to the 1879, and United States in 1849, being then a Wesleyan preacher and a blacksmith; but became a Unitarian, and preached some years in Chicago, where he founded Unity Church in 1860. He was made pastor of the Church of the Messiah, New York City, in September, 1879, pastor emeritus in 1896. Included in his publications are: "Nature and Life" (1866); "The Life that Now Is" (1871); "Lectures to Young Men and Women" (1886); "A Man in Earnest"; "Clear Grit" (1914). His "Life and Letters" edited by J. H. Holmes was published in 1917. Died in November, 1912. 66