Authors:George Duffield Jr
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| George Duffield Jr | |
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| Last name | Duffield |
| First name | George |
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| Born | September 12, 1818, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. |
| Died | July 6, 1888, Bloomfield, New Jersey. |
| Buried | Detroit, Michigan. |
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| Best known for | Hymns:Stand up stand up for Jesus |
George Duffield, Jr.; (1818 to 1888[1]) , was born at Carlisle, Pa., September 12, 1818; graduated at Yale in 1837, and at Union Theological Seminary, New York, in 1840; was ordained an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and became a pastor successively, of many of the leading Presbyterian Churches in the North and Northwest--viz., Brooklyn, N.
Biography
Y., 1840-47; Bloomfield, N. J., 1847-52; Philadelphia, 1852-61; Adrian, Mich., 1861-65; Galesburg, Ill., 1865-69; and at Ann Arbor and Lansing, Mich., 1869-84. He retired from the active work of the ministry in 1884, and settled at Detroit, Mich. He died July 6, 1888, at Bloomfield, N. J., while on a visit to his son's widow. He was the son of Rev. George Duffield, D.D., the "patriarch of Michigan," 'who was born in 1796 and died at Detroit in 1868, and the father of the late Rev. Samuel W. Duffield, D.D., of Bloomfield, N. J., author of English Hymns, Their Authors and History, 1886, and Latin Hymn Writers and Their Hymns, 1889.[2]
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References
- ↑ NetHymnal (1996). "Duffield, George".
- ↑ Nutter, Charles S. (1915). Hymn Writers of the Church. Nashville: Nashville: Smith & Lamar. p. 588. ISBN 1176719580
