Ralph Waldo Emerson was the minister of the congregation, then called the Christian Association of East Lexington, from 1836 to 1838.
He died en route to the dedication ceremony in a wreck at sea.
Claire Feingold Thoryn has joined Follen as the church's settled minister.
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