First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City:

UU of the Week

Ready to take a deep dive into UU history? Each week, we’ll explore a new figure in Unitarian Universalist History.

Explore the history of

Unitarian Universalists

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1733

Joseph Priestly

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Unitarian scientist and theologian

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1735

John Adams

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First Unitarian President

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1741

John Murray

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Founder of American Universalism

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1751

Judith Sargent Murray

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Universalist playwright, essayist, poet, religious educator, and revolutionary feminist. 

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1771

Hosea Ballou

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Universalist preacher and writer

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1779

Maria Cook

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Universalist preacher

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1780

William Ellery Channing

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Unitarian minister and theologian

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1802

Dorothea Dix

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Unitarian activist

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1803

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Unitarian minister and leader of the Transcendentalist movement

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1805

Frederic Henry Hedge

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Unitarian minister and founding member of the Transcendentalist movement

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1807

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Poet

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1809

Charles Darwin

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Naturalist

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1810

Margaret Fuller

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Unitarian writer

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1810

Theodore Parker

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Unitarian minister, theologian, and abolitionist.

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1810

Edmund Sears

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Unitarian minister and lyricist

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1813

Henry Bergh

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Animal rights activist and founder of the ASPCA

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1812

Charles Dickens

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Unitarian author

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1817

Henry David Thoreau

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Transcendentalist writer

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1818

Maria Mitchell

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Unitarian astronomer 

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1819

Julia Ward Howe

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Universalist peace activist and poet. 

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1820

Florence Nightingale

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Unitarian Universalist healthcare advocate and nurse 

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1821

Elizabeth Blackwell

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First American female doctor 

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1824

Thomas Starr King

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Universalist Unitarian minister

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1825

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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Unitarian Theologian

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1835

Olympia Brown

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Universalist minister and Sufragette

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1836

Augusta Jane Chapin

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Universalist minister and Sufragette

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1841

Eliza Anne McIntosh Reid

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Unitarian Canadian community builder

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1842

Joseph Jordan

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First black Universalist minister

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1843

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

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Unitarian minister and social activist

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1844

Eliza Tupper Wilkes

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Unitarian Universalist minister

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1845

Quillen Shinn

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Universalist minister and missionary

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1848

Lewis Latimer

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Unitarian inventor

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1852

Clara Barton

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Universalist nurse and founder of the American chapter of the Red Cross.

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1855

Fannie Barrier Williams

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Universalist writer and activist

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1859

Carrie Clinton Lane Chapman Catt

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Unitarian suffragette and founder of the League of Women Voters

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1862

Samuel Atkins Eliot

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American Unitarian Association President and minister

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1863

Joseph Fletcher Jordan

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Universalist minister and educator

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1864

Mila Frances Tupper Maynard

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Unitarian minister

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1865

Mary J. Jordan

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Universalist educator

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1866

Beatrix Potter

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Unitarian author

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1868

Thomas E Wise

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Universalist minister

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1870

Norbert Capek

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Unitarian minister

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1873

Sarah Josephine Baker

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Unitarian physician

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1875

Ethelred Brown

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Unitarian minister

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1875

Albert Schweitzer

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Nobel Prize wining activist

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1876

Sophia Lyon Fahs

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Unitarian Religious Educator

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1878

John Hassler Dietrich

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Minister, considered “father of religious humanism”

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1881

Clarence Russell Skinner

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Universalist minister

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1892

Angus MacLean

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Universalist religious educator and minister

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1893

Annie Bizzell Jordan Willis

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A pioneering Universalist educator

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1894

e.e. Cummings

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Unitarian poet who challenged traditional poetry style and meter. 

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1900

Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin

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Unitarian astronomer and Harvard professor

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1901

James Luther Adams

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Unitarian Universalist theologian

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1901

Linus Pauling

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Unitarian Nobel Prize winner and scientist

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1902

A. Powell Davies

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Unitarian minister

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1916

Homer Jack

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Unitarian Universalist minister, civil rights activist, and pacifist. 

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1918

T. Berry Brazelton

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Unitarian Universalist award-winning writer and pediatrician.

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1919

Pete Seeger

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Unitarian Universalist musician, and activist.

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1920

Ray Bradbury

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Unitarian Universalist writer

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1925

Viola Liuzzo

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Unitarian Universalist Activist

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1925

Dr. Nancy Grace Roman

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Unitarian NASA executive

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1927

James Reeb

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Unitarian minister and civil rights activist

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1942

Judith Goodenough

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Unitarian Universalist artist and poet

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1946

Margot Adler

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Unitarian Universalist reporter and founder of CUUps

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1946

Barbara Pescan

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Unitarian Universalist minister and LGBT activist

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1970

Christopher Reeve

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Unitarian Universalist actor.

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1982

Annie Clark, “St. Vincent”

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Unitarian Universalist musician

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1986

Sam Ames

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Unitarian Universalist LGBTQ Activist

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