Short Name: | William T. Sleeper |
Full Name: | Sleeper, William T. (William True), 1819-1904 |
Birth Year: | 1819 |
Death Year: | 1904 |
Sleeper, W. T. is given in I. D. Sankey’s Sacred Songs & Solos, 1881, as the author of “A ruler once came to Jesus by night” (Need for the New Birth).
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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William T. Sleeper (1819-1904)]
Born: February 9, 1819, Danbury, New Hampshire.
Died: September 24, 1904, Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Sleeper attended Phillips-Exeter Academy, the University of Vermont, and the Andover Theological Seminary. After ordination, he conducted home ministry work in Massachusetts and Maine. He later became pastor of the Summer Street Congregational Church in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he served over 30 years. His works include:
The Rejected King, and Hymns of Jesus, 1883.
-- www.hymntime.com
Tunes by William T. Sleeper (3) | As | Instances | Incipit |
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AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL (Sleeper) | William T. Sleeper (Composer) | 11 | 35223 45333 77211 |
[Faith of our fathers, living still] (Sleeper) | William W. Sleeper (Composer) | 2 | 33321 71664 44321 |
[The beautiful bright sunshine] (Sleeper) | William W. Sleeper (Composer) | 2 | 53234 53212 16517 |