His four hymns in the Book of Hymns, with other poems by him, are included in Putnam’s Singers and Songs, of the Liberal Faith, 1875. Of the above hymns those listed as 3 and 5 are included in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937.
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Hill, Rev. Thomas, D.D., L.L.D., New Brunswick, New Jersey, January 7, 1818—November 21, 1891, Portland, Maine.
He graduated from Harvard College in 1843 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1845. He served as minister of the First Parish (Unitarian) in Waltham, Massachusetts from 1845 to 1859; was president of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1859-1862; president of Harvard University, 1862-1868; and minister of the First Parish of Portland, Maine, 1873 to 1891. He was distinguished as a mathematician.
In the earlier part of his career he wrote or translated many hymns which found publication in current periodicals, usually anonymously or signed only with cryptic initials. One by him, beginning,
All holy, ever living One,
was included in a few hymn books of the 19th century, but has dropped out of use. A few others, mostly written for special occasions, are in Putnam’s Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith, but none have found other use.
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Holland, Joseph Gilbert, Belchertown, Massachusetts, July 24, 1819—October 12, 1881. A newspaper man on the staff of the Springfield Republican who became editor of Scribner’s Magazine in 1870. Author of several books and some poetical pieces. One of the latter, beginning
For summer’s bloom, and autumn’s blight, (Praise in and through all things)