After graduating from Harvard Divinity School, Frothingham becomes a Unitarian Minister. Like his classmate, Thomas Higginson, his support of abolition casts him as a radical, and he is forced to resign from a Sunday School position in the church. His other “radical views” include rejection of the practice of Communion and support for Charles Darwin and Theodor Spenser. In 1865 he founds his own Independent Liberal Church and serves as pastor. Later on he writes art criticism for The New York Times and biographies of Unitarians Theodor Parker and William Ellery Channing.
Octavius Frothingham
