Daniel Dulany Addison

Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1863, Daniel Dulany Addison studied at Union College and the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was ordained in the Episcopal Church and served first in Springfield, then as rector in Beverly, and later at All Saints Church in Brookline, where he spent much of his career.

Alongside his ministry, Addison built a substantial writing life. He published books on subjects including Phillips Brooks, Lucy Larcom, The Life and Times of Edward Bass, The Clergy in American Life and Letters, and The Episcopalians. He also contributed articles to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, showing how comfortably he moved between pastoral work and historical writing.

Addison was especially interested in Liberia, a connection that became important enough that he was made a trustee of the College of Monrovia and was knighted by the Liberian government in 1904 in recognition of his services. He died in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1936.