1876 - 1968 Author of "Before Your Cross, O Jesus" in The New Century 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.
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Hughes, p. 317
Reynolds, p. 253
Stuber, p. 396
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Ferdinand Q. Blanchard