1833-1915

Adoniram Judson Rich

Congregational & Unitarian Minister  ME/MA

Adoniram Judson Rich was born in 1833 the son of Daniel Fogg Rich and his wife, Anne.  He had nine siblings. He later married Harriet Louise Rich and they birthed four children. He studied (1859-61) at the Baptist’s Colby College in Maine and then Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1863. Adoniram Judson Rich spent his career as one of the leading pastors and theologians for the Congregationalists and Unitarians through the nineteenth century. His pastoral record reads like this:

• 1863-67. Minister, Congregational Church, Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA
• 1867-70. Minister, Congregational Church, Westminster, Worcester Co., MA
• 1870-76. Minister, Unitarian Church, Brookfield, Worcester Co., MA
• 1879-83. Minister, Unitarian Church, Hyde Park, Suffolk, Co., MA
• 1883-85. Minister, Unitarian Church, Fall River, Bristol, Co., MA
• 1891-95. Minister, First Unitarian Church, Milford, Hillsborough Co., NH
• 1908. Minister, Unitarian Church, Dighton, Bristol Co., MA

Adoniram Judson Rich was also a prolific author and thinker for the liberal church movement.  Some of his more renown works were republished again and again making as many as 10 editions and as recently as 2017.

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