Charles S. Newhall

Born: October 4, 1842, Boston, Massachusetts.
Died: April 11, 1935, Berkeley, California.

Newhall attended Amherst College and Union Theological Seminary, and was ordained a Congregational minister. He pastored over 25 years, then became associated with the United States Forestry Service and developed a reputation as an outstanding naturalist. He retired in 1905 to Berkeley, California.

--Reynolds, William Jensen. Hymns of Our Faith. Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman Press, 1964.

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