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Sears, Edmund Hamilton

clergyman, author, poet, was born in 1810 in Sandisfield, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman and religious poet, and pastor at Weston, Mass., in 1865-76. He wrote the familiar Christmas hymn, Calm on the Listening Ear of Night. Regeneration; Foregleams and Foreshadows of Immortality, originally published as Athanasia; The Fourth Gospel the Heart of Christ; Christ in the Life; Sermons and Songs of the Christian Life; Pictures of the Olden Time; and That Glorious Song of Old.

He died Jan. 14, 1876, in Weston, Mass.