Edward Hubbell Chapin
Musician · 1814–1880 · Union Village, New York
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Songwriter
Edwin Hubbell Chapin — sometimes printed in songbooks as Edward Hubbell Chapin — was a nineteenth-century Universalist minister, lecturer, and social reformer who pastored New York’s Fourth Universalist Society for thirty-two years and who, with John G. Adams, co-edited Hymns for Christian Devotion, the most widely used Universalist hymnal of the mid-nineteenth century. His own hymn texts were carried into the standard American gospel repertoire.
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- Born December 29, 1814, in Union Village, New York.
- Ordained a Universalist minister in 1838.
- Pastored in Richmond, Virginia, then in Charlestown, Massachusetts from 1841 to 1847.
- Called to the Fourth Universalist Society of New York (the Church of the Divine Paternity) in 1848; remained its pastor until his death thirty-two years later.
- Co-edited Hymns for Christian Devotion: Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination in 1845 with John G. Adams.
- Wrote several hymn texts that entered the standard American congregational repertoire.
- Was widely regarded as one of the most popular public speakers in America during the 1840s, 50s, and 60s.
- Died December 26, 1880, three days short of his sixty-sixth birthday.