Wisner. A Sermon occasioned by the Death of the Hon. William Phillips (1827)

Wisner, Benjamin B. A Sermon occasioned by the Death of the Hon. William Phillips, preached on the third of June, 1827, being the Sabbath after the Funeral. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1827. First Edition. [10461] Brown library buckram, ex Yale Divinity School with bookplate and ink stamps, 8 1/4 x 5 1/5 inches, bound without the wrappers. 52 pp., clean. One leaf with tear in the bottom margin corner. Good. Hardcover. A sermon on Psalm 112:4-6; Wisner gives an account of the life of Phillips in the sermon. William Phillips (1750-1827), b. & d. at Boston, Mass. Phillips was a direct descendant of the Rev. George Phillips, whom Cotton Mather styled as "among the first saints of New England" in his Magnalia. Our Phillips was a very wealthy Boston politician, merchant and philanthropist. He was elected 12 times as lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts (1812-23). He was the first president of the Massachusetts General Hospital and was elected to the American Antiquarian