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Joseph N. Folwell

Short Name: Joseph N. Folwell
Full Name: Folwell, Joseph N., 1827-1909
Birth Year: 1827
Death Year: 1909

Folwell, Joseph N. (Philadelphia, June 1, 1827--November 13, 1909, Kingston, New Jersey). Baptist. Born into a Quaker family, Folwell became a Baptist in 1847 and shortly thereafter began to study for the ministry. Attended Bucknell University, but was forced to leave during his junior year due to illness. Received honorary M.A. from Madison University, Hamilton, New York. Pastorates at Roadstown, NJ, 1851; Philadelphia, 1852; Ithaca, NY, 1868-1869; Brooklyn, NY, 1870-1882; Bayonne City, NJ, 1886; Westfield, NJ, 1887; Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1888-1889; Camden, NJ, 1892-1896; Kingston, NJ, 1898, 1902-1909; Hasbrouck Heights, NJ, 1899-1900; Jersey City, NJ, 1901.

Author of Baptist Catechism for Families and Sunday Schools (Ithaca, 1866). Wrote several hymns published in a weekly Baptist journal entitled The Watchman. His hymn "The Child's Prayer" is included in Bright Jewels for the Sunday School, edited by Robert Lowry (New York: Bigelow & Main, 1869). He is also represented in another collection edited by Lowry, Our Glad Hosanna, In addition, Burrage prints a five-stanza hymn entitled "Prayer for the Holy Spirit," which begins, "Holy Spirit, at this hour, Let us feel thy quickening power."

--Deborah Carlton Loftis, DNAH Archives


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