Dall, Charles Henry Appleton (Dal), clergyman, born in Baltimore, Md., 12 February 1816; died in Calcutta, British India, 18 July 1886. He was educated in the Boston public and Latin schools, graduated at Harvard in 1837 and at Harvard divinity-school in 1840. In November 1841 he was ordained an evangelist of the Unitarian church in St. Louis, after which he was settled in Baltimore, Md., Portsmouth, N.H., Needham, Mass., and Toronto, Canada. Failing health from excessive pastoral duties, with a preference for missionary work, induced him to take up that occupation as his life's labor. He became the first foreign missionary of the Unitarian church in America, and in February 1855 sailed for Calcutta. There he instituted the first girls' school for natives, the first school for homeless and friendless children and the first children's temperance society. Mr Dall was elected a member of the American oriental society and the Asiatic society of Bengal, and a foreign associate of the Hungarian Unitarian consistory. He was the author of many tracts, educational and moral, for circulation in British India, a small work on the Suez Canal, many hymns and devotional poems, and notes of travel contributed to periodicals in the United States and India. The number of pamphlets written by Mr Dall in India exceeded one hundred and many of them were reprinted several times in response to a demand from the natives for whose instruction they were intended.
Adapted from "Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography, Vol. II, New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1887"
Adapted from "Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography, Vol. II, New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1887"
Dall, Charles Henry Appleton (Dal), clergyman, born in Baltimore, Md., 12 February 1816; died in Calcutta, British India, 18 July 1886. He was educated in the Boston public and Latin schools, graduated at Harvard in 1837 and at Harvard divinity-school in 1840. In November 1841 he was ordained an evangelist of the Unitarian church in St. Louis, after which he was settled in Baltimore, Md., Portsmouth, N.H., Needham, Mass., and Toronto, Canada. Failing health from excessive pastoral duties, with a preference for missionary work, induced him to take up that occupation as his life's labor. He became the first foreign missionary of the Unitarian church in America, and in February 1855 sailed for Calcutta. There he instituted the first girls' school for natives, the first school for homeless and friendless children and the first children's temperance society. Mr Dall was elected a member of the American oriental society and the Asiatic society of Bengal, and a foreign associate of the Hungarian Unitarian consistory. He was the author of many tracts, educational and moral, for circulation in British India, a small work on the Suez Canal, many hymns and devotional poems, and notes of travel contributed to periodicals in the United States and India. The number of pamphlets written by Mr Dall in India exceeded one hundred and many of them were reprinted several times in response to a demand from the natives for whose instruction they were intended.
Adapted from "Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography, Vol. II, New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1887"
Adapted from "Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography, Vol. II, New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1887"
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Buried in Calcutta, India
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