Samuel Francis Smith
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Samuel Francis Smith was an American Baptist minister, journalist, and author. He is best known for having written the lyrics to "My Country, 'Tis of Thee", which he entitled "America".
Portrait of Samuel Francis Smith by Charles Delevan Mosher, 1890
A sketch of Samuel Francis Smith from a life sketch in The Express
Samuel Francis Smith's foster son Thornton Chase, The first American Baháʼí
Grave of Samuel Francis Smith, in Newton, Massachusetts
Andover Theological Seminary
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Andover Theological Seminary was a Congregationalist seminary founded in 1807 and originally located in Andover, Massachusetts on the campus of Phillips Academy.
Samuel Francis Smith
…Davis, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Isaac Edward Morse, Benjamin Peirce, George W. Richardson, and Charles Storer Storrow. From 1829 to 1834, he attended Andover Theological Seminary. While a student at Andover Theological Seminary, Smith gave Lowell Mason lyrics he had written and the song was first performed in public on July 4…
A portrait of Andover Theological Seminary in Andover, Massachusetts, now on display at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut
Andover Hall at Harvard Divinity School