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| Short Name: | Edward Augustus Horton |
| Full Name: | Horton, Edward Augustus, 1843-1931 |
| Birth Year: | 1843 |
| Death Year: | 1931 |
Horton, Rev. Edward Augustus. (Springfield, Massachusetts, September 28, 1843--April 15, 1931, Toronto, Canada). He studied at the University of Chicago and at Meadville Theological School, from which he graduated in 1868. He served Unitarian churches in Leominster, Mass., 1868-1875; Hingham, Mass., 1877-1880; and the Second Church in Boston, 1880-1892. Thereafter he was active in the work of the Unitarian Sunday School Society. In 1912, he wrote an "Anniversary Hymn" beginning "We honor those whose work began" which was included in The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914.
Texts by Edward Augustus Horton (27) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
|---|---|---|---|
| Across the ages runs the light | Edward Augustus Horton (Author) | English | 2 |
| Across the sky and in the vales | Edward Augustus Horton (Author) | English | 4 |
| Be gentle to the humblest thing | Edward Augustus Horton (Author) | English | 4 |
| Bring now your songs of gladness | Edward A. Horton (Author) | English | 2 |
| Down the ages dark, through the winding years | Edward A. Horton (Author) | English | 2 |
| From face to face, from eye to eye | Edward A. Horton (Author) | English | 2 |
| From ocean to ocean, from hill to plain | Edward Augustus Horton (Author) | English | 2 |
| God's great tree its branches spreads | Edward Augustus Horton (Author) | English | 2 |
| In life's daily duties sow | Edward A. Horton (Author) | English | 3 |
| In the vales a murmur, on the hills a stir | Edward A. Horton (Author) | English | 3 |
| Let the valley and the hill praise | Edward Augustus Horton (Author) | 2 | |
| Lo summer golden summer | Edward Augustus Horton (Author) | English | 3 |
| Nests are making on the boughs | Edward Augustus Horton (Author) | English | 4 |
| O happy bells of Christmas ringing | Edward A. Horton (Author) | English | 2 |
| Onward, the call now is sounding | Edward A. Horton (Author) | English | 2 |
| Ring, ye Bells, now loudly, softly | Edward Augustus Horton (Author) | English | 2 |
| Rosy, ruddy, over the world steals the dawn | Edward Augustus Horton (Author) | English | 2 |
| Sowers went forth in the spring time green | Edward Augustus Horton (Author) | English | 4 |
| The circling years bring light at last | Edward Augustus Horton (Author) | English | 2 |
| The flowers I love | Edward A. Horton (Author) | English | 2 |
| The winds that once did roar | Edward Augustus Horton (Author) | 2 | |
| There's a hope that comes with summer | Edward Augustus Horton (Author) | 2 | |
| Through the nightly hours | Edward A. Horton (Author) | English | 2 |
| Warm o'er the skies the sunshine lies | Edward A. Horton (Author) | 4 | |
| We honor those whose work began | Edward Augustus Horton (Author) | English | 2 |
| We thank Thee, Father, for all that's fair and bright | Edward A. Horton (Author) | English | 2 |
| Ye Easter bells your music swells | Edward Augustus Horton (Author) | English | 3 |
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