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| Smith, Samuel Francis |
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| 180895, American Baptist clergyman and poet, b. Boston. He is remembered as the author of the national hymn America, written while he was a student at Andover Theological Seminary. Among his many other hymns is The Morning Light Is Breaking. |
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