1830 - 1892 Author of "Glory, praise, to thee be given" in The Liturgy and the Offices of Worship and Hymns of the American Province of the Unitas Fratrum, or the Moravian Church Libbey, John Daniel, b. June 28, 1830, at Baildon, Yorks. Moravian minister at various places; finally at Fairfield from 1886 to 1891; d. at Oakbrook, March 17, 1892. He contributed various translations to the Moravian Hymn Book, 1886, including "Glory, praise, to Thee be sung," p. 965, ii.; "O, be not thou dismayed," p. 873, i.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
John D. Libbey