Coit Stanton

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Stanton Coit (1857-1944) was an American leader in the Ethical Culture movement, especially in England. He was born in Columbus, Ohio; studied at Amherst, at Columbia, and at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he took the degree of Ph.D.. In 1886 he founded the Neighborhood Guild, a settlement house in New York City's Lower East Side which is now known as the University Settlement House. Coit was also an aide of Felix Adler in the Society for Ethical Culture. In 1888, he went to London as minister of the South Place Ethical Society. He became president of the West London Ethical Society, preached in the Queen's Road (Bayswater) Ethical Church, and in 1910, stood for parliament as the Labour Party candidate in Wakefield. He was editor of the International Journal of Ethics in 1893-1905, and compiled The Message of Man: A Book of Ethical Scriptures (1902), an Ethical Hymn Book (1905), Responsive Services (1911), and Social Worship (1913), and wrote translations of Gizycki's works on ethics. This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
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