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Sebastian F. Streeter

Short Name: Sebastian F. Streeter
Full Name: Streeter, Sebastian F. (Sebastian Ferris), 1810-1864
Birth Year: 1810
Death Year: 1864

Streeter, Sebastian Ferris. (Weare, New Hampshire, July 7, 1810--August 23, 1864, Baltimore, Maryland). Son of Sebastian Streeter, 1783-1867. A Universalist layman, he wrote a hymn beginning "How gracious the promise, how soothing the word," which is included in Church Harmonies: New and Old, 1895.

--Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives


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