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Short Name: J. Freeman Young
Full Name: Young, J. Freeman (John Freeman), 1820-1885
Birth Year: 1820
Death Year: 1885

John Freeman Young (1820-1885)

Born: Oc­to­ber 30, 1820, Pitts­ton, Maine.
Died: No­vem­ber 15, 1885, New York Ci­ty.
Buried: Old Ci­ty Cem­e­te­ry, Jack­son­ville, Flor­i­da.

Young at­tend­ed Wes­ley­an Un­i­ver­si­ty, Mid­dle­town, Con­nec­ti­cut; Wes­ley­an Sem­in­a­ry, Read­field, Maine; and the Vir­gin­ia The­o­lo­gic­al Sem­in­ary, Al­ex­and­ria, Vir­gin­ia. Or­dained a Pro­test­ant Epis­co­pal min­is­ter, he served in Tex­as, Mis­sis­sip­pi, Lou­i­si­a­na, and New York, and be­came the se­cond bi­shop of Flor­i­da in 1867. His works in­clude:
Carols for Christ­mas Tide (New York: Dan­i­el Da­na, Jr., 1859)
Hymns and Mu­sic for the Young, 1860-61
Great Hymns of the Church (ed­it­or; pub­lished post­hu­mous­ly in 1887 by John H. Hop­kins)

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