Edwin Hubbell Chapin

1814–1880 · Universalist (United States) · New York, United States

Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814–1880), pastor of the Church of the Divine Paternity in New York from 1848, was the leading Universalist preacher of his generation. He was also a favourite lecturer on the lyceum platform, and his sermons on the moral life of the great city were noted for their rapid, impassioned delivery.