1850–1933
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Born: Feb­ru­ary 15, 1850, Pres­ton Coun­ty, West Vir­gin­ia.

Died: No­vem­ber 27, 1933, Mor­gan­town, West Vir­gin­ia.

Buried: Oak Grove Ce­me­te­ry, Mor­gan­town, West Vir­gin­ia.

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Biography

Daniel was the son of Jes­se Mar­tin Pur­in­ton and Nan­cy Ald­en Ly­on, and hus­band of Flo­rence Ab­bie Ly­on.

He was edu­cat­ed at West Vir­gin­ia Uni­ver­si­ty, Mor­gan­town (WVU) (BA 1873, MA 1876), and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see (doc­tor­ate).

At WVU, he taught in the Pre­pa­ra­to­ry De­part­ment (1873–78), lo­gic (1878–80), ma­the­ma­tics (1880–84), me­ta­phy­sics (1885–89), and vo­cal mu­sic (1873–89). Pur­in­ton sup­port­ed the edu­ca­tion of wo­men, and in 1889 pro­posed that WVU ad­mit wo­men as de­gree can­di­dates. His sister-in-law, Har­ri­et Ly­on, was the first wo­man to gra­du­ate from WVU.

Purinton be­came vice-pre­si­dent and act­ing pre­si­dent of WVU in 1881. In 1890, he left to be­come pre­si­dent of De­ni­son Col­lege in Gran­ville, Ohio.

He re­turned to WVU in 1901, and served as both pre­si­dent and dean of the Col­lege of Arts and Sci­enc­es un­til Ju­ly 31, 1911. He was al­so pre­si­dent of the West Vir­gin­ia Bap­tist Ge­ne­ral As­sem­bly and the Ohio Bap­tist Edu­ca­tion So­cie­ty.

Works

Sources

Lyrics

  1. At the Pal­ace Gate Con­fess­ing
  2. Beyond the Roll­ing Sea
  3. Beyond This Vale of Sense and Sin
  4. Bring in the Child­ren, One and All
  5. Christmas Bells Are Chim­ing Mer­ri­ly
  6. Come, O Come to Je­sus
  7. Far Away From Home We Wan­der
  8. Glowing in the Sun­light
  9. God, Our Fa­ther, Bids Us Pro­claim
  10. Haste Thee, Pil­grim, on Thy Jour­ney
  11. Hear the Sav­ior Gent­ly Call­ing
  12. Held in the Arms of the Fa­ther’s Love
  13. Holy Spi­rit, Now Des­cend
  14. I Know in Whom I Have Be­lieved
  15. If Grav­en on Thy Palm, Dear Lord
  16. If the Sav­ior Jour­ney with Me
  17. In the Name of Je­sus March­ing On
  18. Is It No­thing to Thee?
  19. Jesus Loves the Child­ren
  20. Keep the Love Light Ever Shin­ing
  21. Life, Love and Labor
  22. Lord, I Am Long­ing to Be
  23. My Sav­ior Bids Me Brave­ly Fight
  24. O Mo­ther Dear, Je­ru­sa­lem
  25. O the Friend That You Need Is Je­sus
  26. O’er the Roll­ing Waves of the Ocean
  27. O the Rush­ing Tide of the Roll­ing Years
  28. On a Still, Clear Night
  29. On to the Con­flict, Bat­tle for the Right
  30. On to the Vic­to­ry, Brave Heart­ed
  31. Say, Shall We Meet?
  32. Shall We Meet One An­oth­er?
  33. Take, Bless­ed Je­sus, My Hand in Thine
  34. There’s One Lit­tle Word
  35. Though the Wind and the Gale
  36. We Are a Lit­tle Pil­grim Band
  37. We Are Sol­diers of the Lord
  38. Weeping Will Not Save Me
  39. Welcome the Tid­ings
  40. We’re a Lit­tle Pil­grim Band
  41. When Drea­ry My Way
  42. When I Am Wea­ry
  43. When Je­sus Lives With­in
  44. When Je­sus Pro­claimed His Ev­an­gel to Earth
  45. When the Day Is End­ed and the Night Has Come