Henry Whitney Bellows (June 11, 1814 â€" January 30, 1882) was an
American clergyman, and the planner and president of the United States
Sanitary Commission, the leading soldiers' aid society, during the
American Civil War. Under his leadership, the USSC became the largest
and most effective organization dedicated to supporting the health and
efficiency of the Union army.Bellows was born in Boston,
Massachusetts. He graduated at Harvard College in 1832, and at the
Harvard Divinity School in 1837, held a brief pastorate (1837â€"1838)
at Mobile, Alabama, and in 1839 became pastor of the First
Congregational (Unitarian) church in New York City (afterwards All
Souls church), in charge of which he remained until his death.Here
Bellows acquired a high reputation as a pulpit orator and lyceum
lecturer, and was a recognized leader in the Unitarian Church in
America. For many years after 1846 he edited The Christian Inquirer, a
Unitarian weekly paper, and he was also for some time an editor of The
Christian Examiner. In 1849, he was elected into the National Academy
of Design as an Honorary member. In 1857 he delivered a series of
lectures in the Lowell Institute course, on The Treatment of Social
Diseases.At the outbreak of the Civil War, he planned the United
States Sanitary Commission, of which he was the only president (1861
to 1878). He inspired the organization of chapters of the USSC in
cities across the country, and the recruiting of thousands of
volunteers to help Union soldiers. The organization raised millions of
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