Benjamin Franklin Tweed
Benjamin Franklin Tweed (1811-1896) was an American educator, born in Wakefield, Massachusetts. After years as a schoolteacher and as principal of the Bunker Hill Grammar School in Charlestown, he was appointed in 1853 to a professorship at Tufts College, the Universalist-founded institution, where he was selected by its first president, Hosea Ballou 2d, and taught rhetoric, logic, and English literature. In 1864 he left Tufts for a chair at Washington University in St. Louis; that same year he and J. S. Barry compiled The Musical Supplement and Congregational Melodist, a tune-book for congregational singing.
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The Musical Supplement and Congregational Melodist (1864) with J. S. Barry, John Greenleaf Adams
A tune-book companion to the words-only Hymns for Christian Devotion: tunes arranged for congregational use, compiled by Benjamin F. Tweed with J. G. Adams and J. S. Barry. Congregations that owned the hymnal bought the supplement to sing it — a two-volume system that this collection can now reassemble.
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