Editing Henry Martyn Dexter (section)

== Biography ==
Henry Marty Dexter was born in [[Plympton, Massachusetts]].<ref name=Cyclopaedia>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lcVKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA177 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=I |publisher=James T. White & Company |pages=177–178 |year=1893 |access-date=2021-04-07 |via=Google Books}}</ref> He graduated at [[Yale University|Yale]] in 1840 and at the [[Andover Theological Seminary]] in 1844; was pastor of a Congregational church in [[Manchester, New Hampshire]], in 1844–1849, and of the Berkeley Street Congregational church, [[Boston]], in 1849–1867; was an editor of the ''Congregationalist'' in 1851–1866, of the ''Congregational Quarterly'' in 1859–1866, and of the ''Congregationalist'', with which the ''Recorder'' was merged, from 1867 until his death.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} He was elected a member of the [[American Antiquarian Society]] in 1869.<ref>[http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlistd American Antiquarian Society Members Directory]</ref>

He was an authority on the history of Congregationalism and was lecturer on that subject at the Andover Theological Seminary in 1877–1880.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}<ref name=Cyclopaedia/>

Dexter died at his home in [[New Bedford, Massachusetts]] on November 13, 1890.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75323718/dr-dexter-dead/ |title=Dr. Dexter Dead |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |location=New Bedford, Massachusetts |page=10 |date=1890-11-13 |access-date=2021-04-07 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> He left his fine library on the ''Puritans in America'' to Yale University.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}