19 Facts About Horatio Dresser

Horatio Willis Dresser was a New Thought religious leader and author in the United States.

Horatio Dresser was born January 15,1866, in Yarmouth, Maine, to Julius and Annetta Seabury Horatio Dresser.

Horatio Dresser's parents were involved in the early New Thought movement through their being treated by and then studying with Phineas Parkhurst Quimby.

Horatio Dresser left school at 13 to work, and in 1882, the family moved back to Boston.

In Boston, Julius Horatio Dresser became embroiled in a controversy with Eddy, who by then had founded the Christian Science church.

Horatio Dresser's father accused Eddy of stealing Quimby's concepts and using them as a basis for her system of Christian Science.

Horatio Dresser dropped out in 1893 upon the death of his father.

In 1895, Horatio Dresser became involved with the Metaphysical Club of Boston, a group which he later referred to as the "first permanent New Thought club".

That same year, Horatio Dresser published his first book, The Power of Silence.

Two years later, this journal was merged into The Arena, for which Horatio Dresser was an associate editor.

Horatio Dresser was a past president of the International New Thought Alliance.

Horatio Dresser started lecturing about New Thought, speaking to audiences in major cities throughout the country.

Horatio Dresser's delivery is plain, straightforward, and unadorned with the flowers of rhetoric.

Horatio Dresser taught at Ursinus College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1911 to 1913.

Dresser sometimes extreme adulation of Quimby led one Quimby acolyte to deduce that Horatio Dresser was actually a reincarnation of Quimby.

In 1921, after the Library of Congress made Quimby's papers publicly available, Horatio Dresser compiled and edited a selection of Quimby's works into The Quimby Manuscripts.

Horatio Dresser attacked Eddy in a chapter as well as in the appendix of the book.

The work was heavily edited and highly selective, and Horatio Dresser chose to publish only what supported his and his parents' claims.

In 1919, Horatio Dresser wrote A History of the New Thought Movement, which aimed to present a history of the movement as an idealistic, spiritual faith system.