Joseph Henry Allen

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Joseph Henry Allen (August 21, 1820 - 1898) was a Unitarian scholar, born in Northborough, Massachusetts; graduated at Harvard College in 1840; and at the Divinity School in 1843. He was pastor at different places. He was the author of Hebrew Men and Times (to the Christian era), (Boston, 1861); Christian History in its Three Great Periods, (1) Early Christianity, (2) The Middle Age, (3) Modern Phases (three volumes, 1882-83); Our Liberal Movement in Theology, chiefly as Shown in Recollections of the History of Unitarianism in New England (1882); and Historical Sketch of the Unitarian Movement since the Reformation, (New York, 1894).^[1]