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George B. Ide

Short Name: George B. Ide
Full Name: Ide, George B. (George Barton), 1804-1872
Birth Year: 1804
Death Year: 1872

Ide, George Barton, D.D., Baptist Minister, was born at Coventry, Vermont, in 1806; educated at Middlebury College, Vermont; was pastor successively at Boston, Philadelphia, and Springfield, Massachusetts, and died in 1872. He edited the Baptist Harp, Philadelphia, 1849. To that work he contributed 9 hymns. Of these, "Son of God, our glorious Head" (On behalf of ministers) is still in common use.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Ide, George Barton, D.D., p. 561, i. Dr. Burrage gives in his Baptist Hymn Writers, 1888, p. 308, a list of Dr. Ide's hymns, and states that he was born Sep. 17, 1804. This date must be substituted for 1806 on p. 561, i.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)


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