John Greenleaf Adams 1810 – 1897 was co-editor with Dr. E.H. Chapin

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Edwin Hubbell Chapin was an American preacher and editor of the Christian Leader.Chapin was born in Union Village, Washington County, New York. He did not attend college, but completed his formal education in a seminary at Birmington, Vermont...

 of the Universalist Hymns for Christian Devotion and alone for the Gospel Psalmist, 1861.

Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Portsmouth is a city in Rockingham County, New Hampshire in the United States. It is the largest city but only the fourth-largest community in the county, with a population of 21,233 at the 2010 census...

, he married twice and had two sons and one daughter. He was ordained in 1833 in Rumney, New Hampshire

Rumney, New Hampshire

Rumney is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,480 at the 2010 census. The town is located at the southern edge of the White Mountain National Forest.-History:...

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Although rarely used outside his denomination, best known of his hymns are

• • Heaven is here, its hymns of gladness
  • God's angels; not only on high do they sing

His papers can be found at the Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School

Harvard Divinity School

Harvard Divinity School is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. The School's mission is to train and educate its students either in the academic study of religion, or for the practice of a religious ministry or other public...

 among which include correspondence with A. C. Thomas, Thomas Thayer

Thomas Thayer

Thomas Baldwin Thayer was the leading Universalist theologian in the late nineteenth century.-Works:* Theology of Universalism* Christianity against infidelity: or, the truth of the gospel history 1836...

, Lucius Paige, Moses Ballou, W. H. Ryder, J. W. Hanson, M. Goddard.