John Greenleaf Adams (1810–1897) was co-editor with Dr.
E.H. Chapin of the
Universalist Hymns for Christian Devotion and alone for the Gospel Psalmist, 1861.
Born in
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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, he married twice, including
Mary Hall Barrett Adams; and had two sons and one daughter. He was ordained in 1833 in
Rumney, New Hampshire.
Although rarely used outside his denomination, best known of his hymns are
* ''Heaven is here, its hymns of gladness''
* ''God's angels; not only on high do they sing''
His papers can be found at the
Andover-Harvard Theological Library
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,
Harvard Divinity School among which include correspondence with
A. C. Thomas,
Thomas Thayer,
Lucius Paige,
Moses Ballou,
W. H. Ryder,
J. W. Hanson
John Wesley Hanson D.D. (1823–1901) was an American Universalist minister and a notable Universalist historian advancing the claim that Universalism was the belief of early Christianity. He was born at Boston.
He is also notable for his eyewitne ...
,
M. Goddard.
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Personal papersof John Greenleaf Adams are in the Andover-Harvard Theological Library at
Harvard Divinity School in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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American Protestant hymnwriters
1810 births
1897 deaths
American Unitarians
19th-century American writers
19th-century American musicians
People from Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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