1818 - 1871 Person Name: Thomas V. Moore Author of "Father, Let Thy Smiling Face" in The Cyber Hymnal Moore, Thomas Vernon, b. at Newville, Penn., Feb. 1,1818, ordained in 1842. He was Moderator of the Presbyterian Assembly in 1867, and d. at Nashville, Ten., Aug. 5, 1871. His hymn, "Father, let Thy smiling face" (Holy Trinity), in The New Psalms & Hymns (Presb.), Richmond, Va., 1901, is dated 1866. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Obituary from the Richmond Daily Dispatch 7 August 1871 (morning edition), in DNAH Archives.
T. V. Moore