Poems, by S. G. Bulfinch
Charleston: James S. Burges, 1834.
First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (approx. 6.5" x 4.25"). vi, [1], 9-108 pages. Faded green cloth hardcover with paper title label on the spine. Cloth protected by mylar jacket. Poems consist of religious and historical verse and hymns. Good. Item #16260
From wikipedia:
Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch (June 18, 1809 - October 12, 1870) was a Unitarian clergyman, author and hymn writer...In 1831, he was ordained at Charleston, South Carolina as Assistant Minister serving with Rev. Samuel Gilman at the Second Independent Church of Charleston, a theologically Unitarian congregation. Subsequently, he served as a minister in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in Washington, D.C. from 1838, in Nashua, New Hampshire from 1845, in Dorchester, Massachusetts from 1852; and lastly in East Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1865 until his death.[4]
He died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 12, 1870.
Bulfinch composed numerous hymns, which gained wide use across the country. Many were made known in England through Beard's Collection of Hymns, published in 1837, in which 19 were published.[4].
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