Stanton Coit [SEP] place of birth
Stanton Coit
Stanton George Coit (11 August 1857 – 15 February 1944) was an American-born leader of the Ethical movement in England. He became a British citizen in 1903.
Biography.
Stanton Coit was born in Columbus, Ohio on 11 August 1857. He studied at Amherst College where he "fell under the spell of Emerson", at Columbia University, and at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he studied under and took the degree of Ph.D in 1885.
Coit was an
of Wales Terrace in west London which became Stanton Coit House. The Ethical Church's name reverted to the West London Ethical Society and rejoined the Ethical Union.
Publications.
- "Ethical democracy: essays in social dynamics" by Professor D.G. Ritchie et al., including Stanton Coit. Edited for the Society of Ethical Propagandists by Stanton Coit (1857)
- "Ethical culture as a religion for the people: two discourses delivered in South Place Chapel "(1887)
- "Ethical Songs with Music"