1876 - 1968 Person Name: Ferdinand Q. Blanchard, 1876- Author of "Before the Cross of Jesus" in Pilgrim Hymnal Blanchard was born on July 12 in Jersey City, NJ. He attended Amherst College (AB 1898) and Yale Divinity School (BD 1901). He was ordained as a Congregational minister and pastored churches in Southington, Connecticut (1901-04); East Orange, New Jersey (1904-15); and at the Euclid Avenue Congregational Church, Cleveland, Ohio, from 1915 until retirement. He died on July 2, 1968 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
Sources:
Hughes, p. 317
Reynolds, p. 253
Stuber, p. 396
NN, Hymnary. Source: http//www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/b/l/a/blanchard_fq.htm
Ferdinand Q. Blanchard