John DeWolf

De Wolf, John. Born at Bristol, Rhode Island, 1786, and educated at Brown University. Subsequently he was Professor of Chemistry in that University, from 1817 to about 1838. He also lectured in medical schools at St. Louis, and in Vermont. His later life was spent at Bristol, R. I., where he died in 1862. His version of Psalms 148, "Angel bands in strains sweet sounding," appeared in a Providence newspaper about 1815, and again in the Journal of that city in an obituary notice of the writer. It was but locally known till included in the Protestant Episc. Hymnal, 1871, by the author's relative, Bishop Howe, of Central Pennsylvania. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)