Protestant Christianity: Biographies

The Oxford Companion to American Literature The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Further reading

Smith, Samuel Francis

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Smith, Samuel Francis (1808–95),Boston Baptist clergyman, who while a student at Andover Theological Seminary wrote the patriotic hymn “America” (1831). His verses were collected in Poems of Home and Country (1895), and he was also the author of a book on mythology, travel sketches, and other prose.

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