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Paul H. Sweetser

Short Name: Paul H. Sweetser
Full Name: Sweetser, Paul H., 1808-1872
Birth Year: 1808
Death Year: 1872

Sweetser, Paul H. (South Reading, Massachusetts, September 23, 1808--June 11, 1872, South Reading, Mass.). A school teacher in Boston and Charlestown, Mass., editor and writer. A Universalist layman, author of a hymn included in Church Harmonies: New and Old, 1895, beginning "Hark! the voice of choral song."

--Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives


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