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Hezekiah Butterworth

Short Name:	Hezekiah Butterworth
Full Name:	Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839–1905
Birth Year:	1839
Death Year:	1905

Butterworth, Hezekiah, was born at Warren, Rhode Island, Dec. 22, 1839. He wrote The Story of the Hymns, American Tract Society, 1875. He is the author of "0 Church of Christ, our blest abode" (The Church) in Root's cantata, Under the Palms, and of "Jesus, I Thee believe" (Jesus All in All) in the cantata Faith Triumphant.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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Butterworth, Hezekiah, was born at Warren, R.I., Dec. 22, 1839, and died in 1905. His hymn, "Little ones of God are we" (Christ's Lambs), in the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905, and other collections, is dated 1870.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)