Authors:Charles Timothy Brooks

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Charles Timothy Brooks
Last name Brooks
First name Charles Timothy
Image Charles Timothy Brooks.jpg
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Born June 20, 1813, Salem, Massachusetts.
Died June 14, 1883, Newport, Rhode Island.
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Best known for Hymns:God bless our native land

Charles Timothy Brooks; (1813 to 1883[1]) , a Unitarian divine and a poet and author of more than ordinary ability, was born at Salem, Mass., in 1813; graduated at Harvard College in 1832 and at the Harvard Divinity School in 1835; was pastor of a Unitarian Church in Newport, R.

Biography

I., from 1836 to 1871; published quite a number of volumes, many being translations from the German; he died June 14, 1883.[2]

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References

  1. NetHymnal (1996). "Brooks, Charles Timothy". 
  2. Nutter, Charles S. (1915). Hymn Writers of the Church. Nashville: Nashville: Smith & Lamar. p. 588.  ISBN 1176719580
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