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 1875

Putnam, Alfred P.
Singers and songs of the liberal faith : Being selections of hymns and other sacred poems of the liberal church in America.
With biographical sketches of the writers, and with historical and illustrative notes.
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1875


The above item has biographical information on:

  Adams, John Quincy (b. 1767 d. 1848)   psalmodist
  Alger, William Rounseville (b. 1822 d. 1905)   hymn writer
  Bartol, Cyrus Augustus (b. 1813)  
  Brooks, Charles Timothy (b. 1813 d. 1883)   hymnologist
  Brown, Francis (b. 1802)  
  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
  Chesbro, Frances M. (b. 1824)   author, hymnwriter
  Clarke, James Freeman (b. 1810 d. 1888)   hymnologist
  Collyer, Robert (b. 1823 d. 1912)   hymnologist
  Dall, Caroline H. (a. 1849)  
  Dall, Charles H.A.  
  Dall, William Cranch Healey (b. 1845)  
  Davis, John (b. 1761 d. 1847)  
  Davis, Samuel (b. 1765 d. 1829)  
  Davis, William T. (b. 1822)   lawyer, hymn writer
  Everett, William (b. 1839 d. 1910)   hymn writer
  Fields, James Thomas (b. 1816 d. 1881)   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
  Furness, William Henry (b. 1802 d. 1896)   hymn writer
  Gannett, William Channing (b. 1840 d. 1923)   hymnologist
  Gray, Thomas (b. 1803 d. 1849)   writer, hymn writer
  Hale, Mary Whitwell (b. 1810 d. 1862)   educator, poet
  Hall, Louisa Jane (b. 1802 d. 1892)   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
  Holmes, Oliver Wendell (b. 1809 d. 1894)   writer
  Johnson, Samuel (b. 1822 d. 1882)   hymnologist
  Laighton, Albert (b. 1829)  
  Livermore, Abiel (b. 1811 d. 1892)   hymn writer
  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (b. 1807 d. 1882)   poet
  Longfellow, Samuel (b. 1819 d. 1892)   poet, hymn writer
  Lowe, Martha Perry (b. 1829)  
  Lunt, William Parsons (b. 1805 d. 1857)   hymn writer
  Mason, Caroline Atherton (b. 1823 d. 1890)   hymn writer
  Miles, Sarah Elizabeth (b. 1807 d. 1877)   hymn writer
  Newell, William (b. 1804 d. 1881)   hymn writer
  Osgood, George (b. 1817)  
  Palfrey, Sara Hammond (a. 1867)  
  Parker, Theodore (b. 1810 d. 1860)   hymn writer
  Peabody, Oliver William Bourne (b. 1799 d. 1847)   hymn writer
  Peabody, William Bourne Oliver (b. 1799 d. 1847)   hymnologist
  Pierpont, John (b. 1785 d. 1866)   hymnologist
  Richardson, James (b. 1817 d. 1863)   clergyman, hymn writer
  Robbins, Chandler (b. 1810 d. 1882)   hymn writer
  Robbins, Samuel Dowse (b. 1812 d. 1884)   hymn writer
  Sears, Edmond Hamilton (b. 1810 d. 1876)   hymnologist
  St. John, A.R. (b. 1805)  
  Sumner, Samuel B. (b. 1797)  
  Very, Jones (b. 1813 d. 1880)   hymn writer
  Very, Lydia L.A. (b. 1823)  
  Very, Washington (b. 1815 d. 1853)   hymn writer
  Ware, Henry (b. 1794 d. 1843)   hymnologist
  Waterston, Anna C.L. (d. 1858)  
  Waterston, Robert Cassie (b. 1812 d. 1893)   hymn writer
  Weidemeyer, John W. (b. 1819)  
  Weiss, John (b. 1828 d. 1879)   hymn writer
  Whitney, Frederic Augustus (b. 1812)  

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