1821 - 1885 Person Name: Rev. Geo. Jarvis Geer, D.D. Meter: 8.8.8.6 Composer of "[Just as I am, without one plea]" in The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 Born: February 24, 1821, Waterbury, Connecticut.
Died: March 16, 1885, New York.
Buried: Saint Paul’s Churchyard, Manhattan, New York.
Geer graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut (1842), and the General Theological Seminary, New York (1845). He served as Rector of Christ Church, Ballston Spa, New York; Associate Rector of the Church of the Holy Apostles, New York (1859); and Rector of St. Timothy’s, New York (1866). He was the first president of the Free Church Guild of New York, and a member of the General Convention of 1874. He received the degree of S. T. D. from Columbia University, and of D.D. from Union in 1862. His works include:
Tune-Book of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1848, with Bishop Bedell & Dr. Muhlenburg
The Conversion of St. Paul (New York: 1871)
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George Jarvis Geer