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RARE "Burial at Sea" Poet Edwin H Chapin Hand Written Letter:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Burial at Sea" Poet Edwin Hubbell Chapin Hand Written Letter Dated 1871.

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Edwin Hubbell Chapin (December

29, 1814 – 1880) was an American preacher and editor of the Christian

Leader. He was also a poet, responsible for the poem Burial at Sea,

which was the origin of a famous folk song, Bury Me Not on the Lone

Prairie. Chapin was born in Union

Village, Washington County, New

York. He completed his formal education in a seminary at Bennington, Vermont. At

the age of twenty-four, after a course of theological study, he was invited to

take charge of the pulpit of the Universalist Society of Richmond, Virginia, and

was ordained as a pastor in 1838. Two years afterward, he moved to Charlestown, Massachusetts,

and in 1840 he accepted the pastorate of the School Street Society, in Boston. In 1848 he settled in New York as pastor of

the Church of

the Divine Paternity, later the Fourth Universalist Society in the

City of New York, when the church was located on Broadway. There he served for

over thirty years, drawing crowds of almost 2,000 each Sunday. Under his

leadership, a new edifice was erected on the corner of 5th Avenue and 45th

Street, and dedicated on the 3rd day of December, 1866. Chapin

became widely known as an orator and author of works including the Crown

of Thorns, Discourses on the Lord's Prayer, Characters

of the Gospel, illustrating phases of the present day, Moral

Aspects of City Life, and Humanity in the City. He the World's

Peace Convention in 1850; at the Kossuth

Banquet; at the Publishers' Association Festival, and at the opening

of the New York Crystal Palace. Harvard College conferred an honorary D.D. upon Chapin in

1856. He was one of the chief actors in what was called the "Broad Church

Movement". He

was the author of the poem Ocean Burial, which was put to music

by George N.

Allen. The song which it became was published widely. It became

a sailor's song and also the beginnings for another song, Bury Me Not on the Lone

Prairie He wrote the poem in his youth and it was published in

September 1839 in Poe's Southern Literary Messenger.

He

was a trustee of Bellevue Medical College and Hospital, and a member of: the

State Historical Society, the beneficent society called the Independent Order of Odd

Fellows, and the prestigious Century Club, composed of

"authors, artists, and amateurs of letters and the fine arts. In 1854

he was elected into the National Academy of Design as

an Honorary member. He died at Pigeon Cove, a village of Rockport, Massachusetts,

survived by two sons, Frederic H. Chapin and Dr. Sidney H. Chapin, and one

daughter, Marion Chapin Davison. The Chapin Memorial Church at Oneonta, New York was dedicated to him in 1894. A

chasm in the rocky coast near his home in Pigeon Cove is named Chapin's Gully

where Chapin often practiced his orations and swam.

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