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Hermon Griswold Batterson
1827 - 1903 Person Name: Hermon G. Batterson Author of "The Last Dread Trump Is Sounding" in The Cyber Hymnal Hermon G. Batterson was born on May 28, 1827 in Marble Dale, Connecticut. He was ordained an Anglican deacon in 1861 by Bishop Gregg of Texas, after which he became a missionary at Seguin. A year later he had charge of St. Mark’s, San Antonio, Texas. In 1862, he became Rector of Grace Church, Wabasha, Minnesota, and while there was advanced to the priesthood by Bishop Whipple in 1866. In 1869 he became Rector of St. Clement’s Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He remained at St. Clement’s until 1872, and then, after several years spent outside of parish work, he accepted the rectorship of the Church of the Annunciation, Philadelphia, in 1880. He stayed there until 1888, and in 1891 became Rector of the Church of the Redeemer, New York, his last parochial charge.
Dr. Batterson has been especially distinguished in literary work and was the author of two volumes of verses, as well as the compiler of two volumes of hymns with tunes. He was also an occasional contributor to the church periodicals. He died on March 9, 1903 in New York City.
Batterson’s works include:
A Manual of Plainsong
The Missionary Tune Book: Adapted to the Book of Common Prayer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Frank E. Remont, 1868)
Christmas Carols and Other Verses (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. B. Lippincott, 1877)
Sketch-Book of the American Episcopate, 1878, 1884
Vesper Bells and Other Verses (New York: James Pott & Company, 1896)
© The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)
The Pathway of Faith (New York: James Pott & Company: 1897)
N.N., Hymnary editor.
Sources: Project Canterbury, anglicanhistory.org/bios/batterson.html and www.hymntime.com/tch
Hermon Griswold Batterson
G. Linnaeus Banks
1821 - 1881 Author of "I live for those who love me" in Hymns of Worship and Service Banks, George Linnaeus, newspaper editor and verse writer, was born at Birmingham, March 2, 1821, and died in London, May 3, 1881. His hymn, “I live far those who love me” [Work for God], in the Tonic Solfa Reporter, June, 1861, and in Daisies in the Grass, 1865 (the joint work of himself and his wife, Isabella, née Varley), p. 21, entitled "What I live for," and signed G. L. B. It is in various recent hymnals, sometimes as in Worship Song, 1905, beginning "I'd live." [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
G. Linnaeus Banks
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