WHITTEMORE, Thomas, clergyman, born in Boston, 1 January, 1800; died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 21 March, 1861. He was apprenticed, at the age of fourteen, to a morocco-dresser in Charlestown, subsequently to a brass-founder, and then to a shoemaker in Boston. Becoming acquainted with the Reverend Hosea Ballou, he was led to study theology under his direction, and in April, 1821, became pastor of the Universalist church at Milford, Massachusetts In 1822 he removed to the church in Cambridge-port, the pastorate of which he resigned in 1831. At an early period in his career as a minister he was joint editor of the "Universalist Magazine," and in 1828 he established the " Trumpet," a Universalist newspaper in Boston, of which he was sole editor and proprietor for thirty years. He represented Cambridge repeatedly in the legislature, and was president of the Vermont and Massachusetts railway, and of the Cambridge bank for many years. Tufts college gave him the degree of D. D. in 1858. He published "Modern History of Universalism, from the Era of the Reformation to the Present Time" (Boston, 1830; enlarged ed., 1860); "Notes and Illustrations of the Parables" (1832); "Songs of Zion" (1836); "Commentary on the Revelation of St. John" (1838); "Guide to Universalism" (1839); "Commentary on the Book of Daniel" (1840); "The Gospel Harmonist" (1841); "Conference Hymns" (1842); "The Sunday-School Choir" (1844); "Life of Reverend Hosea Ballou" (4 vols., 1854-'5)" and an "Autobiography" (1859).