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 1959

Foote, Henry Wilder
American Unitarian hymn writers and hymns
Compiled by Henry Wilder Foote for the Hymn Society of American for publication in the society's proposed dictionary of American hymnology
Cambridge, Mass: 1959, 270 p.


The above item has biographical information on:

  Adams, John Quincy (b. 1767 d. 1848)   psalmodist
  Alcott, Louisa May (b. 1833 d. 1888)   author, hymn writer
  Alger, William Rounseville (b. 1822 d. 1905)   hymn writer
  Ames, Charles Gordon (b. 1828 d. 1912)   hymn writer
  Appleton, Francis Parker (b. 1822 d. 1903)   hymn writer
  Badger, George Henry (b. 1859 d. 1953)   hymn writer
  Ballou, Adin (b. 1803 d. 1890)   hymn writer
  Barber, Henry Hervey (b. 1835 d. 1923)   hymn writer
  Barrows, Samuel June (b. 1845 d. 1909)   hymn writer
  Bartrum, Joseph P. (a. 1833)   hymn writer
  Beach, Seth Curtis (b. 1837 d. 1932)   hymn writer
  Belknap, Jeremy (b. 1744 d. 1798)   hymn writer
  Bernard, John (b. 1681 d. 1770 a. 1725)   editor
  Blake, James Vila (b. 1842 d. 1925)   hymn writer
  Briggs, C.A. (a. 1853)   hymn writer
  Briggs, LeBaron Russell (b. ERR4> d. 1934)   hymn writer
  Brooks, Charles Timothy (b. 1813 d. 1883)   hymnologist
  Bryant, William Cullen (b. 1794 d. 1878)   poet
  Bulfinch, Stephen Greenleaf (b. 1809 d. 1870)   psalmodist
  Burleigh, William Henry (b. 1812 d. 1871)   hymnologist
  Chadwick, John White (b. 1840 d. 1904)   hymnologist
  Chapman (a. 1853)   hymn writer
  Cheney, Ednah (b. 1824 d. 1904)   hymn writer
  Church, Edward Alonzo (b. 1844 d. 1929)   hymn writer
  Clarke, James Freeman (b. 1810 d. 1888)   hymnologist
  Clute, Oscar (b. 1837 d. 1902)   hymn writer
  Collyer, Robert (b. 1823 d. 1912)   hymnologist
  Dana, Charles Anderson (b. 1819 d. 1897)   hymn writer
  Dwight, John Sullivan (b. 1813 d. 1893)   writer on music
  Emerson, Ralph Waldo (b. 1803 d. 1882)   essayist, poet
  Everett, William (b. 1839 d. 1910)   hymn writer
  Fernald, Woodbury Melcher (b. 1813 d. 1873)   hymn writer
  Flint, James (b. 1779 d. 1855)   hymn writer
  Follen, Eliza Lee (b. 1787 d. 1860)   hymn writer
  Foote, Henry Wilder (b. 1838 d. 1889)   hymn writer
  Freeman, James (b. 1759 d. 1835)   hymn writer
  Frothingham, Nathaniel Langdon (b. 1793 d. 1870)   hymn writer
  Frothingham, Octavius Brooks (b. 1822 d. 1895)   hymnologist
  Fuller, Sarah Margaret (b. 1810 d. 1850)   hymn writer, critic
  Furness, William Henry (b. 1802 d. 1896)   hymn writer
  Gannett, William Channing (b. 1840 d. 1923)   hymnologist
  Gilman, Caroline (Howard) (b. 1794 d. 1888)   hymn writer
  Gilman, Samuel (b. 1791 d. 1858)   hymnologist
  Goldsmith, Peter Hair (b. 1865 d. 1926)   hymn writer
  Greenough, James Bradstreet (b. 1833 d. 1901)   hymn writer
  Greenwood, Helen Woodward (b. 1880 d. 1959)   hymn writer
  Hale, Edward Everett (b. 1822 d. 1909)   hymn writer
  Hale, Mary Whitwell (b. 1810 d. 1862)   educator, poet
  Hall, Harriet Ware (b. 1841 d. 1889)   hymn writer
  Ham, Marion Franklin (b. 1867 d. 1956)   hymn writer
  Harris, Florence (b. 1891 d. 1933)   hymn writer
  Harris, Thaddeus Mason (b. 1768 d. 1842)   hymn writer
  Hedge, Frederic Henry (b. 1805 d. 1890)   hymnologist
  Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (b. 1822 d. 1911)   hymnologist
  Hill, Thomas (b. 1818 d. 1891)   hymn writer
  Holland, Josiah Gilbert (b. 1819 d. 1881)   hymnologist
  Holmes, John Haynes (b. 1879 d. 1964)   bass, cello
  Holmes, Oliver Wendell (b. 1809 d. 1894)   writer
  Hosmer, Frederick Lucian (b. 1840 d. 1929)   hymnologist
  Howe, Julia Ward (b. 1819 d. 1910)   poet, hymn writer
  Huntington, Frederick Dan (b. 1819 d. 1904)   hymnologist
  Hurlburt, William Henry (b. 1827 d. 1895)   hymn writer
  Johnson, Samuel (b. 1822 d. 1882)   hymnologist
  Kimball, Jacob (b. 1761 d. 1826 a. 1793)   composer, tunebook compiler
  Larned, Augusta (b. 1835 d. 1924)   hymn writer
  Lathrop, John Howland (b. 1880)   hymn writer
  Livermore, Abiel (b. 1811 d. 1892)   hymn writer
  Long, John Davis (b. 1838 d. 1915)   hymn writer
  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (b. 1807 d. 1882)   poet
  Longfellow, Samuel (b. 1819 d. 1892)   poet, hymn writer
  Loring, Louisa Putnam (b. 1854 d. 1924)   hymn writer
  Loring, William Joseph (b. 1795 d. 1841)   hymn writer
  Lowell, James Russell (b. 1819 d. 1891)   poet
  Lunt, William Parsons (b. 1805 d. 1857)   hymn writer
  Mann, Newton (b. 1856 d. 1926)   hymnologist
  Marean, Emma (b. 1854 d. 1936)   hymn writer
  Mason, Caroline Atherton (b. 1823 d. 1890)   hymn writer
  Miles, Sarah Elizabeth (b. 1807 d. 1877)   hymn writer
  Mott, Frederick B. (b. 1856 d. 1941)   hymn writer
  Newell, William (b. 1804 d. 1881)   hymn writer
  Norton, Andrews (b. 1786 d. 1853)   hymn writer
  Parker, Theodore (b. 1810 d. 1860)   hymn writer
  Peabody, Ephraim (b. 1807 d. 1856)   hymn writer
  Peabody, Oliver William Bourne (b. 1799 d. 1847)   hymn writer
  Peabody, William Bourne Oliver (b. 1799 d. 1847)   hymnologist
  Perkins, James Handasyde (b. 1810 d. 1849)   hymn writer
  Pierpont, John (b. 1785 d. 1866)   hymnologist
  Pray, Lewis Glover (b. 1793 d. 1882)   hymn writer
  Prince, Thomas (b. 1687 d. 1758)   clergyman
  Putnam, Alfred Porter (b. 1827 d. 1906)   hymn writer
  Robbins, Chandler (b. 1810 d. 1882)   hymn writer
  Robbins, Samuel Dowse (b. 1812 d. 1884)   hymn writer
  Sargent, Lucius Manlius (b. 1786 d. 1867)   hymnologist
  Savage, Minot Judson (b. 1841 d. 1918)   hymn writer
  Scudder, Eliza (b. 1821 d. 1896)   hymn writer
  Sears, Edmond Hamilton (b. 1810 d. 1876)   hymnologist
  Sewall, Charles Chauncy (b. 1802 d. 1886)   hymn writer
  Sigourney, Lydia Howard (Huntley) (b. 1791 d. 1865)   writer on etiquette, hymnologist
  Sill, Edward Rowland (b. 1841 d. 1887)   hymnologist
  Silliman, Vincent Brown (b. 1894)   bass, editor
  Spencer, Anna Garlin (b. 1851 d. 1931)   hymn writer
  Sprague, Charles (b. 1791 d. 1875)   hymn writer
  Trapp, Jacob (b. 1899)   hymn writer
  Tuckerman, Joseph (b. 1778 d. 1840)   hymn writer
  Very, Jones (b. 1813 d. 1880)   hymn writer
  Very, Washington (b. 1815 d. 1853)   hymn writer
  Ware, Henry (b. 1794 d. 1843)   hymnologist
  Waterston, Robert Cassie (b. 1812 d. 1893)   hymn writer
  Weir, Robert Stanley (b. 1856 d. 1926)   judge, translator
  Weiss, John (b. 1828 d. 1879)   hymn writer
  Wendte, Charles William (b. 1844 d. 1911)   hymn writer
  Westwood, Horace (b. 1884 d. 1956)   hymn writer
  Wile, Frances Whitmarsh (b. 1878 d. 1939)   hymnologist
  Wiley, Hiram Ozias (b. 1831 d. 1873)   hymn writer
  Willard, Samuel (b. 1776 d. 1859)   composer, Pastor
  Williams, Theodore Chickering (b. 1855 d. 1915)   hymnologist
  Williams, Velma Curtis (b. 1852 d. 1941)   hymn writer
  Willis, Love Maria (b. 1824 d. 1908)   hymn writer
  Willis, Nathaniel Parker (b. 1807 d. 1867)   hymnologist, publisher
  Wilson, Edwin Henry (b. 1898)   hymn writer
  Wilson, Lewis Gilbert (b. 1858 d. 1928)   hymn writer
  Young, George H. (a. 1908)   hymn writer

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