William Wallace Fenn (February 12, 1862 – March 6, 1932) was a Unitarian minister and a dean of

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. He served the

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from 1890–1901. He gave the 1921

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Biography

William Wallace Fenn was born in

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on February 12, 1862. He graduated from Harvard in 1884 and received an AM and STB (bachelor of sacred theology) from the Divinity School in 1887.William Wallace Fenn , Harvard Divinity School Library
/ref> He married Faith Huntington Fisher in 1891, daughter of

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, and they had five children. He died at his home in

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on March 6, 1932.

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in Cambridge, Massachusetts. American Unitarians Harvard Divinity School alumni Harvard University staff {{US-Christian-clergy-stub 1862 births 1932 deaths Clergy from Boston