1840–1929

Introduction

Born: Oc­to­ber 16, 1840, Fram­ing­ham, Mas­sa­chu­setts.

Died: June 7, 1929, Ber­ke­ley, Ca­li­for­nia.

Buried: Edg­ell Grove Ce­me­te­ry and Mau­so­leum, Fram­ing­ham, Mas­sa­chu­setts.

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Biography

Frederick was the son of Charles Hos­mer and Su­san Car­ter.

He gra­du­at­ed from Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty and Har­vard Di­vi­ni­ty School, and be­came a Uni­ta­ri­an min­is­ter.

He served in North­bo­ro, Mas­sa­chu­setts; Quin­cy, Il­li­nois; St. Lou­is, Mis­sou­ri; and Ber­ke­ley, Ca­li­for­nia.

He was a re­cog­nized au­tho­ri­ty on hym­no­dy, and taught the sub­ject at Har­va­rd Di­vi­ni­ty School.

Works

In 1880 and 1911, he helped pro­duce ed­it­ions of Uni­ty Hymns and Car­ols. His oth­er works in­clude:

Sources

Lyrics

  1. Father, to Thee We Look in All Our Sor­row
  2. Forward Through the Ag­es
  3. From Age to Age How Grand­ly Rise
  4. From Age to Age They Ga­ther
  5. From Ma­ny Ways and Wide Apart
  6. Go Not, My Soul, in Search of Him
  7. Happy Christ­mas Day
  8. Hear, Hear, O Ye Na­tions
  9. I Can­not Think of Them as Dead
  10. I Lit­tle See
  11. Immortal by Their Deed and Word
  12. Many Things in Life There Are
  13. Not Al­ways on the Mount
  14. Not When, with Self Dis­sa­tis­fied
  15. Now While the Day in Trail­ing Splen­dor
  16. O Beau­ti­ful, My Coun­try
  17. O Day of Light and Glad­ness
  18. O Light, from Age to Age the Same
  19. O Lord of Life, Wher­e’er They Be
  20. O Name, All Oth­er Names Above
  21. O Pro­phet Souls of All the Years
  22. O Thou, in All Thy Might So Far
  23. O Thou in Lone­ly Vi­gil Led
  24. O Thou Who Art of All That Is
  25. O Thou Whose Spir­it Wit­ness Bears
  26. On Eyes That Watch Through Sor­row’s Night
  27. Over the Land in Glo­ry
  28. Rose Is Queen Among the Flow­ers, The
  29. Thought of God, The
  30. Thy King­dom Come, O God
  31. Thy King­dom Come, on Bend­ed Knee
  32. Today Be Joy in Ev­ery Heart
  33. We Can­not Think of Them as Dead
  34. We Pray No More, Made Low­ly Wise
  35. When Cour­age Fails, and Faith Burns Low
  36. Where Men on Mounts of Vi­sion