Bird, Frederic Mayer

Episcopalian; b. in Philadelphia, Penn., June 28, 1838; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, 1857, and the Union Theological Seminary, New- York City, 1860; became a Luther an minister, 1860; was an army chaplain, 1862-63; pastor in several places entered Episcopal ministry, 1868; was rector at Spots wood, N.J., and elsewhere; and since February, 1881, has been chaplain and profe or of psychology, Christian evidences, and rhetoric, in the Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Penn. He has given especial attention to hymnology, and his library on the subject, embracing some 3,500 volumes, is by far the largest in America, and po ibly in existence. He has edited Charles Wesley seen in his Finer and Le Familiar Poems, New York, 1867; with Rev. Dr. B. M. Schmucker, the Luther an Pennsylvania Ministerium Hymns, Philadelphia, 1865, revised ed. 1868, and now used as Luther an General Council's Church-Book and, with Bishop Odenheimer, Songs of the Spirit, New York, 1871. He has written the department of Hymn Notes in the New-York Independent since 1880; wrote most of the hymnological articles in the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopaedia, and most of the American matter in Julian's Dictionary of Hymnology, London and New York, now in course of preparation.