Early in life he took an active part in promoting unsectarian education.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
This was the unsectarian schools established in the town for the education of the industrial classes.
"Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel"
John Yeardley
This is the object of the present work, which, though written by a Unitarian, and from a Unitarian stand-point, and though published by the American Unitarian Association, will, we trust, be sufficiently unsectarian.
"Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors"
James Freeman Clarke