John Thornton Kirkland

(1770-1840)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Kirkland, John Thornton, 1770 1840 LBT ID: JiKirkl1840 VIAF ID: 3215311 LOC ID: n85387453	B/BAP: 1770-08-17 DIED: 1840-04-26
SOURCES: DAB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Educated at Harvard, he was a founder of the Monthly Anthology and Boston Athenaeum, pastor of the New South Church in Boston (1794-1810), and president of Harvard College (1810-28).
REFERENCES TO John Thornton Kirkland: William Roscoe to the Marquis de Lafayette, [1830] in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Found 1: ¶ 1 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter XX. 1827-1831 Chapter XXI. Found 1: ¶ 54