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~Edward Evertt Hale ~ Portrait from engraving in Illustrious Americans, by Edward E. Hale. Published 1896

Edward Everett Hale (April 3, 1822 – June 10, 1909) was an American author and Unitarian clergyman.

Biography

Hale was born on April 3, 1822,^[1] in Roxbury, Massachusetts, the son of Nathan Hale (1784-1863), proprietor and editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, and the brother of Lucretia Peabody Hale, Susan Hale, and Charles Hale. Edward Hale was the nephew of Edward Everett, the orator and statesman, while his father was the nephew of Nathan Hale who was executed by the British for espionage during the Revolutionary War.

Edward Everett Hale ~ 1855

Edward Hale graduated from Harvard in 1839; was pastor of the Church of the Unity, Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1846-1856, and of the South Congregational (Unitarian) church, Boston, in 1856-1899. In 1903 he became Chaplain of the United States Senate. Hale married Emily Baldwin Perkins in 1852—she was the niece of Connecticut Governor and U.S. Senator Roger Sherman Baldwin and Emily Pitkin Perkins Baldwin on her father's side and Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher on her mother's side. They had nine children: one daughter and eight sons. Hale died in Roxbury, by then part of Boston, in 1909.

Edward Everett Hale

Combining a forceful personality, organizing genius, and liberal practical theology, Hale was active in raising the tone of American life for half a century. He had a deep interest in the anti-slavery movement (especially in Kansas), as well as popular education (especially Chautauquas), and the working-man's home. He was a constant and voluminous contributor to newspapers and magazines. He was an assistant editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser and edited the Christian Examiner, Old and New (which he assisted in founding in 1869 and which merged with Scribner's Magazine in 1875), Lend a Hand (which he founded in 1886 and which merged with the Charities Review in 1897), and the Lend a Hand Record. He was the author or editor of more than sixty books—fiction, travel, sermons, biography and history.

Statue of Edward Everett Hale in Boston Public Garden, by Bela Pratt.

Hale first came to notice as a writer in 1859, when he contributed the short story "My Double and How He Undid Me" to the Atlantic Monthly. He soon published other stories in the same periodical. The best known of these was "The Man Without a Country" (1863), which did much to strengthen the Union cause in the North, and in which, as in some of his other non-romantic tales, he employed a minute realism which led his readers to suppose the narrative a record of fact. These two stories and such others as "The Rag-Man and the Rag-Woman" and "The Skeleton in the Closet," gave him a prominent position among short-story writers of 19th century America. His short story "The Brick Moon", serialized in the Atlantic Monthly, is the first known fictional description of an artificial satellite. It was possibly an influence on the novel The Begum's Fortune by Jules Verne.

The story "Ten Times One is Ten" (1870), with its hero Harry Wadsworth, contained the motto, first enunciated in 1869 in his Lowell Institute lectures: "Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand." This motto was the basis for the formation of Lend-a-Hand Clubs, Look-up Legions and Harry Wadsworth Clubs for young people. Out of the romantic Waldensian story "In His Name" (1873) there similarly grew several other organizations for religious work, such as King's Daughters, and King's Sons.

Hale once said, "I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do."^{[citation needed]}

Edward Everett Hale's Children

Emily and Edward had nine children:
• Alexander - b & d 1853
• Ellen Day - 1854-1939
• Arthur - 1859-1939
• Charles Alexander - 1861-1867
• Edward Everett, Jr. - 1863-1932
• Philip Leslie - 1865-1931
• Herbert Dudley - 1866-1908
• Henry Kidder - 1868-1876
• Robert Beverly - 1869-1895

Notes

Further reading

Works by Hale

• Old and New. Edited by Hale. v.1 (1870); v.6 (1872-1873); v.8 (1873); v.11 (1875).
• Illustrious Americans, coauthored by E.E. Hale, Entered into the library of congress by W.E. Scull, 1896, Public Domain

Works about Hale

• C.D. Merriman (2006). ""Edward Everett Hale"". The Literature Network. http://www.online-literature.com/edward-hale/. Retrieved 2008-01-26. 
•  "Hale, Edward Everett". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911. 

External links

• WorldCat
• Works by Edward Everett Hale at Project Gutenberg

From Wikiquote

I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Edward Everett Hale (3 April 1822 – 10 June 1909) was an American author and Unitarian clergyman.

Sourced

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

• No matter what happens to you, no matter who flatters you or who abuses you, never look at another flag, never let a night pass but you pray God to bless that flag. Remember, boy, that behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the Country Herself, your Country, and that you belong to Her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by Her, boy, as you would stand by your mother, if those devils there had got hold of her to-day.
  • The Man Without a Country (1863)

• He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.
  • The Man Without a Country, Epitaph of Philip Nolan

• To look up and not down,
  To look forward and not back,
  To look out and not in, and
  To lend a hand.
  • Ten Times One is Ten (1870)

• I am only one,
  But still I am one.
  I cannot do everything,
  But still I can do something;
  And because I cannot do everything
  I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
  • Ten Times One is Ten (1870)

• If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.
  • As quoted in The Quotable Manager : Inspiration for Business and Life (2006) by Joel J. Weiss, p. 128

External links

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Edward Everett Hale

• Works by Edward Everett Hale at Project Gutenberg

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