John Greenleaf Adams (1810–1897) was co-editor with Dr. E.H. Chapin of the Universalist Hymns for Christian Devotion and alone for the Gospel Psalmist, 1861. Born in

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, he married twice, including Mary Hall Barrett Adams; and had two sons and one daughter. He was ordained in 1833 in

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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,

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among which include correspondence with A. C. Thomas, Thomas Thayer, Lucius Paige, Moses Ballou, W. H. Ryder,

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, M. Goddard.

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Personal papers
of John Greenleaf Adams are in the Andover-Harvard Theological Library at

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. American Protestant hymnwriters 1810 births 1897 deaths American Unitarians 19th-century American male writers 19th-century American musicians People from Portsmouth, New Hampshire {{US-songwriter-stub