Memorial recorded from Oberlin Heritage Center website, Westwood Cemetery Gravestone Inventory
Oberlin College Professor for over 30 years. He taught sacred music, natural science, and geology. For more information, see Oberlin College archives. Portrait from Oberlin College Digital Collections.
Author of :
-The social and Sabbath school hymn-book, published 1847-1854.
-Descriptive catalogue of minerals: With conspectus of classes and orders, published 1866
-Zoology. Synoptical arrangement of the classes, orders, families and genera of the animal kingdom. Prepared for classes in systematic zoology, published 1867.
-Lamp of my spirit: song to the ocean star, 1858 with Baynard Taylor
Husband of Mary Caroline Rudd Allen (C-03-03)
___________
From biography in "Hymns of Our Faith" by William Jensen Reynolds, c. 1964, Broadman Press.:
Graduated from Oberlin College in 1938, and taught music there until retiring in 1864. His professorial career was foundational to the origins of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music established in 1865.
Composed the tune named "Maitland" in 1844 to which the hymn "Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone?" is set.
Oberlin College Professor for over 30 years. He taught sacred music, natural science, and geology. For more information, see Oberlin College archives. Portrait from Oberlin College Digital Collections.
Author of :
-The social and Sabbath school hymn-book, published 1847-1854.
-Descriptive catalogue of minerals: With conspectus of classes and orders, published 1866
-Zoology. Synoptical arrangement of the classes, orders, families and genera of the animal kingdom. Prepared for classes in systematic zoology, published 1867.
-Lamp of my spirit: song to the ocean star, 1858 with Baynard Taylor
Husband of Mary Caroline Rudd Allen (C-03-03)
___________
From biography in "Hymns of Our Faith" by William Jensen Reynolds, c. 1964, Broadman Press.:
Graduated from Oberlin College in 1938, and taught music there until retiring in 1864. His professorial career was foundational to the origins of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music established in 1865.
Composed the tune named "Maitland" in 1844 to which the hymn "Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone?" is set.
Memorial recorded from Oberlin Heritage Center website, Westwood Cemetery Gravestone Inventory
Oberlin College Professor for over 30 years. He taught sacred music, natural science, and geology. For more information, see Oberlin College archives. Portrait from Oberlin College Digital Collections.
Author of :
-The social and Sabbath school hymn-book, published 1847-1854.
-Descriptive catalogue of minerals: With conspectus of classes and orders, published 1866
-Zoology. Synoptical arrangement of the classes, orders, families and genera of the animal kingdom. Prepared for classes in systematic zoology, published 1867.
-Lamp of my spirit: song to the ocean star, 1858 with Baynard Taylor
Husband of Mary Caroline Rudd Allen (C-03-03)
___________
From biography in "Hymns of Our Faith" by William Jensen Reynolds, c. 1964, Broadman Press.:
Graduated from Oberlin College in 1938, and taught music there until retiring in 1864. His professorial career was foundational to the origins of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music established in 1865.
Composed the tune named "Maitland" in 1844 to which the hymn "Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone?" is set.
Oberlin College Professor for over 30 years. He taught sacred music, natural science, and geology. For more information, see Oberlin College archives. Portrait from Oberlin College Digital Collections.
Author of :
-The social and Sabbath school hymn-book, published 1847-1854.
-Descriptive catalogue of minerals: With conspectus of classes and orders, published 1866
-Zoology. Synoptical arrangement of the classes, orders, families and genera of the animal kingdom. Prepared for classes in systematic zoology, published 1867.
-Lamp of my spirit: song to the ocean star, 1858 with Baynard Taylor
Husband of Mary Caroline Rudd Allen (C-03-03)
___________
From biography in "Hymns of Our Faith" by William Jensen Reynolds, c. 1964, Broadman Press.:
Graduated from Oberlin College in 1938, and taught music there until retiring in 1864. His professorial career was foundational to the origins of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music established in 1865.
Composed the tune named "Maitland" in 1844 to which the hymn "Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone?" is set.
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