Henry Hallam Tweedy

1868-1953

Born: August 5, 1868, Binghamton, New York. Died: April 11, 1953, Brattlebury, Vermont. Buried: Mountain View Cemetery, New Fairfield, Connecticut.

Tweedy attended Phillips Andover Academy, Yale University (B.A. & M.A.), Union Theological Seminary, and the University of Berlin. Ordained a Congregationalist minister in 1898, he pastored at Plymouth Church in Utica, New York (1892-1902), and South Church, Bridgeport, Connecticut (1902-1909). He then became Professor of Homiletics at Yale Divinity School (1909-1937). He taught liturgy, music, and the arts, and was interested in religious architecture. His works include:

• The Minister and His Hymnal
• Christian Worship and Praise, 1939

Hymns:

1. Eternal God, Whose Power Upholds
2. O Spirit of the Living God