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Henry Martyn Dexter

Henry Martyn Dexter
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Short Name: Henry Martyn Dexter
Full Name: Dexter, Henry Martyn, 1821-1890
Birth Year: 1821
Death Year: 1890

Dexter, Henry Martyn, D.D., born at Plympton, Mass., Aug. 13, 1821, and educated at Yale College, and Andover. In 1844 he was ordained Pastor of a Congregational Church at Manchester, New Haven. In 1849 he removed to the Berkeley Street Congregational Church, Boston, where he remained until his appointment as Editor of the Congregationalist, in 1867. Dr. Dexter is the translator of “Shepherd of tender youth" [see Clemens, Titus], in common usage in Great Britain and America.  [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)


TextsTunesHymnalsRecommendations
Texts by Henry Martyn Dexter (5)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
Hyrde for lam og faarH. M. Dexter (Author)2
Oh, tierno y buen pastorHenry M. Dexter, 1821-1890 (Adapter)Spanish4
Pastor a naayatHenry M. Dexter (Translator)Tagalog2
Shepherd of tender youthH. M. Dexter (Author)English228
Thou art our holy LordH. M. Dexter (Author)2

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