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A. Phelps

Short Name: A. Phelps
Full Name: Phelps, Austin, 1820-1890
Birth Year: 1820
Death Year: 1890

Phelps, Austin, D.D., born at West Brookfield, Mass., Jan. 7, 1820, was Professor of Sacred Rhetoric at Andover, 1848-1879, and one of the editors of the Sabbath Hymn Book, 1858, d. at Bar Harbour, Maine, Oct. 13, 1890, aged 70. He is the author of "Father! if I may call Thee so" (Eternal Punishment) in the Sabbath Hymn Book, 1858, No. 1289.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)


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