C. A. Bartol

The Rev. Cyrus Augustus Bartol, DD, was born in Freeport, Maine, April 30, 1813. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1832 and from Harvard Divinity School in 1835. He received the degree of DD from Harvard College in 1859. He preached at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1835-1836, and was a minister-at-large in Boston for a short time. He was ordained at the West Church (Unitarian) Boston on March 1, 1837, as pastor with the Rev. Charles Lowell, DD, and he became the sole pastor in 1861. He retired in 1889 and died in Boston on December 16, 1900.

Notes from Andover-Harvard Theological Library

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The Unitarian Hymns for the Sanctuary, Boston, 1849, were edited by the Rev. C. A. Bartol and others, and are known as Bartol's Collection.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology,, p. 120 (1907)

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Henry Wilder Foote notes in the DNAH Archives that the hymn "Be thou ready, fellow-mortal" never had its authorship disclosed, but its "theme and mode of expression suggest that it may have been written by [Cyrus Augustus] Bartol."