Full text of "Autobiography, memories and experiences of Moncure Daniel Conway".
Object Description ; Alternate Title, Memories and experiences of Moncure Daniel Conway ; Author, Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 ; Date (Original), 1904 ; Date....
Moncure D. Conway
American philosopher
Moncure D. Conway | |
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| Born | ()March 17, Falmouth, Virginia, U.S. |
| Died | November 15, () (aged&#;75) Paris, France |
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Moncure Daniel Conway (March 17, – November 15, ) was an American abolitionist minister and radical writer.
At various times Methodist, Unitarian, and a Freethinker, he descended from patriotic and patrician families of Virginia and Maryland but spent most of the final four decades of his life abroad in England and France, where he wrote biographies of Edmund Randolph, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Thomas Paine and his own autobiography.
He led freethinkers in London's South Place Chapel, now Conway Hall.[1]
Family
Conway's parents descended from the First Families of Virginia.[2] His father, Walker Peyton Conway, was a wealthy slave-holding gentleman farmer, county judge, and state representative; his home, known as the Conway House, still stands at King Street (also kno