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Samuel Longfellow (1819–1892)
Longfellow, Samuel. An American clergyman, poet, and author, brother of Henry W.; born in Portland, ME, June 18, 1819; died there, Oct. 3, 1892. He graduated from Harvard in 1839 and from the Divinity School in 1846. He held pastorates in Unitarian churches in Fall River, MA, Brooklyn, NY, and Germantown, PA. Later he settled in Cambridge, MA. As a hymn-writer he had few equals. Among his works are: ‘Hymns of the Spirit’ (with the Rev. Samuel Johnson), published in 1848; ‘Life of H. W. Longfellow’ (1886); ‘A Few Verses of Many Years’ (1887).