E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin

Born in Union Village, New York, in 1814, Edwin Hubbell Chapin became one of the best-known Universalist ministers in the United States. He was admired above all as an orator, and his preaching helped build his reputation far beyond his own congregation.

Chapin served as a pastor in New York City and was associated with the Church of the Divine Paternity. Alongside his ministry, he worked as an editor, lecturer, and author, writing on religion, ethics, and public life in a style that made him popular with broad audiences.

He is also remembered as a poet; his poem "Burial at Sea" is often noted as the source of the folk-song refrain later known as "Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie." Chapin died in 1880, but he remained an important figure in 19th-century American religious and literary culture.