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A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey
1802–1892
A Unitarian minister with a strong interest in American memory and moral history, he wrote warmly about the Revolutionary generation and the people who shaped early New England. His books blend biography, reflection, and firsthand recollection from a world still close to the founding era.
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The Young Maiden
by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey
About the author
Born in Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1802, Artemas Bowers Muzzey was an American clergyman and writer. Reference sources consistently describe him as a Unitarian minister, and note that he studied at Harvard, graduating from the college in 1824 and from the Cambridge Divinity School in 1828.
Muzzey served Unitarian congregations in Massachusetts and New Hampshire before retiring from the ministry in the mid-1860s. He became especially known for historical and biographical writing, including books such as Reminiscences and Memorials of Men of the Revolution and Their Families and Prime Movers of the Revolution Known by the Writer. Those works are notable for preserving personal memories and family stories connected to the American Revolution.
What makes his writing interesting today is its closeness to lived memory: he belonged to a generation that could still meet people tied directly to the Revolutionary era. He died in 1892, leaving behind work that sits between history, memoir, and tribute.