Babcock, Wm. R. Sacred Melodies: A Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs, for the use of Families, Prayer Meetings, Class Meetings, and Private Circles. Danville, [NY]: A. R. Knox | Printed by Jas. T. Morton, Mt. Morris, 1845. First Edition. [9819]
Black leather with gilt title to front, edges worn, front joint weak, 9.5 x 7 cm (3 3/4 x 2 3/4 inches). Lacks the front free end papers. 128 pp., complete, worming to the margin of the last several leaves. Good. Hardcover.
106 selections with an index; words only.
William Robinson Babcock (1814-1899), Methodist Episcopal minister, first converted among the Freewill Baptists, but united with the Methodists in 1822; ordained deacon in the Pittsburgh Conference in 1826, and Elder in 1828. In 1848 he declared his sympathy for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and, having secured a good reference from the Genesee Annual Conference, moved to [now West] Virginia and became Presiding Elder of the Parkersburgh District. He later ministered in Missouri, and is buried in the Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis. - findagrave dot com.
With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.