Edward Everett Hale

Edward Everett Hale
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Short Name: Edward Everett Hale
Full Name: Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909
Birth Year: 1822
Death Year: 1909

Hale, Edward Everett, M.A., b. at Boston, 1822, and graduated at Harvard. From 1846 to 1856 he was pastor of an Unitarian Church at Worcester; and from 1856 he has had the charge of South Church, Boston. He has published several prose works of merit. His hymn, "O Father, take the new-built shrine" (Dedication of a Church), is dated 1858. It was published in Longfellow & Johnson's Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, No. 223, in 2 stanzas of 4 lines; and was repeated in Martineau's Hymns of Praise & Prayer, Lon., 1873, No. 725. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology

Wikipedia Biography

Edward Everett Hale (April 3, 1822 – June 10, 1909) was an American author, historian, and Unitarian minister, best known for his writings such as "The Man Without a Country", published in Atlantic Monthly, in support of the Union during the Civil War. He was the grand-nephew of Nathan Hale, the American spy during the Revolutionary War.

Texts by Edward Everett Hale (3)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
From city and from prairieEdward Everett Hale (Author)English2
O Father, take the new built shrineRev. Edward Everett Hale, 1822- (Author)English7
The ploughing of the Lord is deepEdward Everett Hale (Author)3

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