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
1733
Joseph Priestly
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Unitarian scientist and theologian
1735
John Adams
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First Unitarian President
1741
John Murray
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Founder of American Universalism
1751
Judith Sargent Murray
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Universalist playwright, essayist, poet, religious educator, and revolutionary feminist.
1771
Hosea Ballou
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Universalist preacher and writer
1779
Maria Cook
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Universalist preacher
1780
William Ellery Channing
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Unitarian minister and theologian
1802
Dorothea Dix
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Unitarian activist
1803
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Unitarian minister and leader of the Transcendentalist movement
1805
Frederic Henry Hedge
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Unitarian minister and founding member of the Transcendentalist movement
1807
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Poet
1809
Charles Darwin
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Naturalist
1810
Margaret Fuller
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Unitarian writer
1810
Theodore Parker
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Unitarian minister, theologian, and abolitionist.
1810
Edmund Sears
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Unitarian minister and lyricist
1813
Henry Bergh
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Animal rights activist and founder of the ASPCA
1812
Charles Dickens
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Unitarian author
1817
Henry David Thoreau
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Transcendentalist writer
1818
Maria Mitchell
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Unitarian astronomer
1819
Julia Ward Howe
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Universalist peace activist and poet.
1820
Florence Nightingale
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Unitarian Universalist healthcare advocate and nurse
1821
Elizabeth Blackwell
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First American female doctor
1824
Thomas Starr King
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Universalist Unitarian minister
1825
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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Unitarian Theologian
1835
Olympia Brown
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Universalist minister and Sufragette
1836
Augusta Jane Chapin
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Universalist minister and Sufragette
1841
Eliza Anne McIntosh Reid
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Unitarian Canadian community builder
1842
Joseph Jordan
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First black Universalist minister
1843
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
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Unitarian minister and social activist
1844
Eliza Tupper Wilkes
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Unitarian Universalist minister
1845
Quillen Shinn
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Universalist minister and missionary
1848
Lewis Latimer
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Unitarian inventor
1852
Clara Barton
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Universalist nurse and founder of the American chapter of the Red Cross.
1855
Fannie Barrier Williams
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Universalist writer and activist
1859
Carrie Clinton Lane Chapman Catt
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Unitarian suffragette and founder of the League of Women Voters
1862
Samuel Atkins Eliot
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American Unitarian Association President and minister
1863
Joseph Fletcher Jordan
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Universalist minister and educator
1864
Mila Frances Tupper Maynard
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Unitarian minister
1865
Mary J. Jordan
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Universalist educator
1866
Beatrix Potter
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Unitarian author
1868
Thomas E Wise
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Universalist minister
1870
Norbert Capek
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Unitarian minister
1873
Sarah Josephine Baker
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Unitarian physician
1875
Ethelred Brown
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Unitarian minister
1875
Albert Schweitzer
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Nobel Prize wining activist
1876
Sophia Lyon Fahs
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Unitarian Religious Educator
1878
John Hassler Dietrich
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Minister, considered “father of religious humanism”
1881
Clarence Russell Skinner
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Universalist minister
1892
Angus MacLean
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Universalist religious educator and minister
1893
Annie Bizzell Jordan Willis
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A pioneering Universalist educator
1894
e.e. Cummings
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Unitarian poet who challenged traditional poetry style and meter.
1900
Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin
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Unitarian astronomer and Harvard professor
1901
James Luther Adams
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Unitarian Universalist theologian
1901
Linus Pauling
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Unitarian Nobel Prize winner and scientist
1902
A. Powell Davies
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Unitarian minister
1916
Homer Jack
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Unitarian Universalist minister, civil rights activist, and pacifist.
1918
T. Berry Brazelton
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Unitarian Universalist award-winning writer and pediatrician.
1919
Pete Seeger
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Unitarian Universalist musician, and activist.
1920
Ray Bradbury
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Unitarian Universalist writer
1925
Viola Liuzzo
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Unitarian Universalist Activist
1925
Dr. Nancy Grace Roman
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Unitarian NASA executive
1927
James Reeb
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Unitarian minister and civil rights activist
1942
Judith Goodenough
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Unitarian Universalist artist and poet
1946
Margot Adler
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Unitarian Universalist reporter and founder of CUUps
1946
Barbara Pescan
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Unitarian Universalist minister and LGBT activist
1970
Christopher Reeve
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Unitarian Universalist actor.
1982
Annie Clark, “St. Vincent”
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Unitarian Universalist musician
1986
Sam Ames
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Unitarian Universalist LGBTQ Activist
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