Charles Dexter Cleveland › Texts

Cleveland, Charles Dexter, LL.D., born at Salem, Mass., Dec. 3, 1802, and graduated at Dartmouth, 1827. Professor of Latin and Greek in Dickinson Coll., Pennsylvania, 1830, and of Latin in the University of New York, 1832. In 1834 he opened a seminary for young ladies in Philadelphia. He died Aug. 18, 1869.

In 1850 he published A Compendium of English Literature; in 1858, another of American Literature; and in 1861, a third of Classical Literature, in addition to other works. His Lyra Sacra Americana, 1868, widely known in England, and from which many hymns have been introduced into the English hymnals, is inadequate and wholly uncritical, but it is better than Rider's Lyra Americana, 1865 (which was reprinted in substance by the R. T. S., London, 1865), and the Biographical sketches appended to it have some value.

[Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)