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Ray Palmer 1808-87, American Congregational clergyman and hymn writer, b. Little Compton, R.I., grad. Yale, 1830. He held pastorates in Bath, Maine (1835-50), and Albany, N.Y. (1850-66). He is remembered chiefly for the hymn "My Faith Looks up to Thee" (1830), a worldwide favorite, for which Lowell Mason wrote the tune Olivet.

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Palmer, Ray (1808–87), born in Rhode Island, was reared in Boston and graduated from Yale (1830). He became a pastor of Congregational churches in Maine and New York, and is best remembered for his original hymns, published in Hymns and Sacred Pieces (1865), Hymns of My Holy Hours (1868), and other collections.

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