Charles Fletcher Dole

Charles Fletcher Dole (1845–1927) was a Unitarian minister, speaker, and writer in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston, Massachusetts, and Chairman of the Association to Abolish War. He authored a substantial number of books on politics, history, and theology. Life Dole was born May 17, 1845, in Brewer, Maine. He was the son of Reverend Nathan Dole (1811–1855) and Caroline Fletcher Dole (1817–1914) and the older brother of Nathan Haskell Dole (1852–1935). He received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1868 and a Masters of Arts in 1870. He graduated from Andover Theological Seminary in 1872 and married Frances Drummond of Springfield, Massachusetts, on March 4, 1873. He was a professor of Greek at the University of Vermont in 1873, a minister at Plymouth Church in Portland, Maine, from 1874 to 1876. He was a member of the American Peace Society, the Anti-Imperialist League, 20th Century, Appalachian, etc. He got a Doctorate in Divinity from Bowdoin College in 1906. Dole became an influential Unitarian minister and began in 1876 as the associate and took over as the settled minister in 1880 of the First Congregational Society of Jamaica Plain - Unitarian. He served for forty years until 1916, when he was named minister emeritus.