Baron Stow (1801–1869) was a

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minister, writer and editor, who in 1843 with Samuel Francis Smith compiled a Baptist

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entitled: ''The Psalmist'', which for the next thirty years was the most widely used Baptist Hymnal in the United States.Baron Stow

Early life and education

Baron Stow was born June 16, 1801, in

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and graduated in 1825 from Columbian College, now

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in Washington, D.C.

Ordained ministry

In 1827 Baron Stow was ordained a minister in a Baptist church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He left there in 1832 to become pastor of the Baldwin Street Baptist Church in

. After 16 years, he left to become pastor of the Rowe Street Baptist Church, from which he retired in 1867. He married community activists Thomas Dalton and Lucy Lew Francis on June 5, 1834 at the Rowe Street Baptist Church in Boston.

Death

Baron Stow died December 27, 1869, in Boston.

Bibliography

* * * * * * * Baron Stow (1864).
Early History of Our Missionary Organization, with Biographical Sketches of the Founders
" in ''The Missionary Jubilee: An Account of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the American Baptist Missionary Union, at Philadelphia, May 24, 25, and 26, 1864, with Commemorative Papers and Discourses,'' (New York: Sheldon & Company, 1869): 89–138. *

References

External links

*Stockbridge, John Calvin.
"The Model Pastor: A Memoir of the Life and Correspondence of Rev. Baron Stow"
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1871. {{DEFAULTSORT:Stow, Baron 1801 births 1869 deaths American religious leaders Baptist ministers from the United States Editors of Christian publications American evangelicals Baptist writers Columbian College of Arts and Sciences alumni People from Croydon, New Hampshire People from Boston 19th-century American clergy