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Longfellow (SAMUEL an American clergyman)

SAMUEL, an American clergyman, brother of Henry W.

Longfellow; born in Portland, Me., June 18, 1819. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1839, and at the Divinity School in 1846. He held pastorates in Unitarian churches in Fall River, Mass., Brooklyn, N. Y., and Germantown, Pa.

Later he settled in Cambridge, Mass. As a hymn-writer he had few equals. He wrote: "Life of H. W. Longfellow" (2 vols., 1886); "Final Memorials of H. W.

Longfellow" (1887). He died in Portland, Me., Oct. 3, 1892.