Isaac Morgan Atwood

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Isaac Morgan Atwood (24 March 1838 - 26 October 1917)

Atwood, who became a Universalist minister, journalist, educator, and denominational leader, was born in Pembroke, New York.

During the four decades spanning the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth he served successively as president of the Canton Theological School, the first General Superintendent of the Universalist General Convention, the Convention's secretary, and professor of theology and philosophy at St. Lawrence University.

His mother once advised him against becoming a Universalist leader, warning, "Isaac, do you know that Universalists are the scum of the earth?" This and other biographical details have been written by Charles A. Howe for the Dictionary of Unitarian Universalist Biography.

His son, John, also became a Universalist dean.