| 2. | Eddy, Daniel Clark was born on 21 Mar 1823 in Salem, MA (son of Eddy, Daniel and Honeycomb, Martha Ward); died on 26 Jul 1896. Other Events and Attributes:
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Ancestry.com. Biographies of Notable Americans, 1904 [database online]. Orem, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 1997. Original data: Johnson, Rossiter, ed. Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Volumes I-X. Boston, MA: The Biographical Society, 1904.
Eddy, Daniel Clarke, clergyman, was born in Salem, Mass., May 21, 1823; son of Daniel and Martha (Honeycomb) Eddy; grandson of Daniel Eddy and Thomas Honeycomb, and a descendant of John and Samuel Eddy, who landed at Plymouth in 1630. He was graduated from the New Hampton theological institution in 1845, and was called to the pastorate of the First Baptist church in Lowell, Mass., Jan. 2, 1846, being ordained Jan. 29, 1846. In 1854 he was chosen by the Native American party a representative to the state legislature and served during his term as speaker of the house. He was afterward chaplain of the senate. In 1856 he resigned his Lowell pastorate to accept a call to the Harvard street church, Boston, Mass., where he remained until 1862. He was pastor of the Tabernacle church, Philadelphia, Pa., 1862-64; of the Baldwin Place and Warren Avenue churches, Boston, Mass., 1864-71; was settled at Hyde Park, Fall River, and again in Boston, Mass., 1871-81, and at the First Baptist church, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1881-96. The fiftieth anniversary of his ordination was celebrated Jan. 29, 1896. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1855, and that of S.T.D. from Madison university in 1859. His published works include: Young Man's Friend (2 series, 1849-59); The Burman Apostle (1850); Lectures to Young Men; Europa (1851); Angel Whispers (1853); Heroines of the Missionary Enterprise (1854); City Side (1854); Young Woman's Friend (1855); The Percy Family, afterward called Our Travelling Party (5 vols., 1858); Waiting at the Cross (1859); Walter' s Tour in the East (6 vols., 1861); Rip Van Winkle's Travels (3 vols., 1882); and Saxenhurst; a Story of the Old World and New (1896). He died at Cottage City, Mass., July 26, 1896.
Eddy, Daniel Clarke (21 May 1823 - 26 July 1896) The Young Woman's Friend, 1857, Wentworth.
Born in Salem, MA to Daniel Eddy and Martha Honeycomb, Daniel Clarke Eddy graduated from New Hampton Theological Institution in New Hampshire in 1845 and served the First Baptist Church in Lowell, MA for ten years. He was also associated with the Tabernacle Church in Philadelphia, the Baldwin Place Church in Boston, and the First Baptist Church of Brooklyn, New York. Eddy married Elizabeth Stone in April, 1846 and raised a family of four children. In 1854, he was elected to the state legislature on the Know-Nothing (or American) party ticket and served as speaker of the house for a two-year term. Eddy then ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor of MA on the Prohibition ticket in 1876. Knownothingism, a nativist political movement of the 1850s, that exploited anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant sentiment, grew in strength through the middle years of the decade but fell apart with the election of Lincoln in 1860. Although Eddy's subsequent career was not in politics, he continued to express his Knownothing sentiments in frequent public speeches. For example, he spoke against the political strength of Unitarians in MA, and in the 1880's, he believed that there were Roman Catholic intentions to gain control of the United States through mass immigration and Vatican propaganda. He did not support, however, restricting immigration on the basis of religion. He advocated civil rights for black citizens and supported the temperance movement.
Eddy was a well-known public orator and author of popular travel books and religious advice for young people. Among these books of morality are The Young Man's Friend (1850) and The Young Woman's Friend (1858). Waiting at the Cross (1869) concerns devotion, while both Daughters of the Cross (1855) and Christian Heroines (1881) examines the lives of women missionaries. According to Ernst, "Neither scholarly nor of lasting literary quality, these books nevertheless reached and inspired many Baptists and other Protestant Readers" (291).
In the preface to The Young Woman's Friend, Eddy states, "It is the hope of the author that this humble work may contribute to the formation of honorable and beautiful human character, lead the mind of the reader to a higher conception of the aims and purposes of life, unfold and develop the graces that adorn and bless humanity and lead those who find no rest here to the great source of rest, the Redeemer and Saviour of the world" (Preface, 5). While Eddy does not explicitly state in his preface that his book is directed at women, it is clear throughout that he has limited his audience. He retells and reinterprets the creation of woman in the Bible chapter of Genesis: "He took the rib out of his side, instead of taking a bone from the head or foot, that Adam might be taught the equality, not the superiority or inferiority, of his wife" (14). He claims that "the constitution of woman, her physical organization, the structure of her material nature, show that she was not designed for hard, out-of-door service" (21) or military work (21) or politics (22) or the pulpit (22). "Where, then, is woman's sphere? At Home. Home is woman's throne, where she maintains her royal court, and sways her queenly authority" (23). Eddy illustrates all the roles of women; The Dutiful Daughter (Chapter II), The Good Mother (Chapter III), The Married State (Chapter IV), The Praying Mother (Chapter VI), The Unfaithful Woman (Chapter IX), The Sister of Charity (Chapter XI). Each role is illustrated by a biblical woman, such as Ruth, who serves as a moral example to other women. For example, The Unfaithful Woman, Delilah, demonstrates "the evil effects of curiosity, which draws out secrets which should not be known, and the fatal consequences which sometimes follow what is deemed the most innocent tattle" (186). The lesson to be learned from Delilah is revealed: "It is woman's mission to be true and faithful, kind and loving; and herein she gains her noblest power over her male companion" (183). Clearly, Eddy recognizes the importance of power relations and instructs women that they will become powerful by following the commands of the Bible.
Ernst, Eldon G. "Eddy, Daniel C." American National Biography. Vol. 7. Eds. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. New York: Oxford, 1999. 291.
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Haynes, G.H. "A Know-Knothing Legislature." Annual Report of the American Historical Association, 1896.
The Young Woman's Friend, or, The Duties, Trials, Loves and Hopes of Woman Boston: Wentworth, Hughes & Co., 1857
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Daniel Clarke Eddy
EDDY, Daniel Clarke, clergyman, born in Salem, MA, 21 May 1823. He was graduated at New Hampton theological institution, New Hampshire, in 1845, and in January 1846, was ordained to the ministry as pastor of the 1st Baptist Church, Lowell, MA, in which relation he continued for ten years. In 1850 he made a visit to Europe. In 1854 he was elected by the American or "know-nothing" party to a seat in the MA legislature, and on the organization of the house was chosen, quite unexpectedly to himself, to be its speaker. In 1856 he resigned the charge of the Church in Lowell, and in the interval between that year and the present has been pastor in Boston, Fall River, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn.
In 1881 he removed to the last-named place, where he is now (1.887) pastor of a Baptist Church. In 1861 he again went abroad, extending his trip to Palestine and Turkey. Madison University conferred upon him the degree of D.D. in 1856. Dr. Eddy has published "Young Man's Friend" (1st series, Lowell, 1849; 2d series, Boston, 1859); " The Burman Apostle" (Lowell, 1850); "Europa," a book of words (1851); " The Percy Family" (5 vols., 1852); "Waiter's Tour in the East " (6 vols., Boston, 1861); "Heroines of the Missionary Enterprise" (1854)" "Angel Whispers" (Lowell, 1853); "City Side" (1854); "Young Woman's Friend" (1855); and "Waiting at the Cross" (Boston, 1859).
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Daniel married Stone, Elizabeth on 9 Apr 1846. Elizabeth was born on 25 Apr 1827 in Salem, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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1860 - 1945 (85 years)
