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Lewis Gilbert Wilson

Short Name: Lewis Gilbert Wilson
Full Name: Wilson, Lewis Gilbert, 1858-1928
Birth Year: 1858
Death Year: 1928

Wilson, Rev. Lewis Gilbert. (Southboro, Massachusetts, February 19, 1858--April 24, 1928, Floral City, Florida). he studies at Dartmouth, Harvard, and Meadville Theological School, and in 1883 was ordained minister of the Unitarian church at Leicester, Mass. Later he served the Unitarian church at Hopedale, Mass., and from 1907-1915 was Secretary in the American Unitarian Association. While there he was a member of the committee which edited The New Hymn and Tune Book published in 1914 by the Association. This book included three of his hymns, beginning

1. O God, our dwelling place,
2. O troubled sea of Galilee,
3. The works, O Lord, our hands have wrought,

all three of which were written in 1912. The first was these is also included in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937.

--Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives


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