Edwin Hubbell Chapin

He was also a poet, responsible for the poem Burial at Sea, which was the origin of a famous folk song, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie.

[2] At the age of twenty-four, after a course of theological study, he was invited to take charge of the pulpit of the Universalist Society of Richmond, Virginia, and was ordained as a pastor in 1838.

[2] He spoke at Frankfort-on-the-Main, before the World's Peace Convention in 1850; at the Banquet for Lajos Kossuth; at the Publishers' Association Festival, and at the opening of the New York Crystal Palace.

[2] He touched upon ideas of American patriotism in his oration at the New York Crystal Palace on July 4, 1854[3] He was the author of the poem Ocean Burial, which was put to music by George N.

[4] He wrote the poem in his youth and it was published in June 1839 in The Universalist Union [6] and September 1839 in Poe's Southern Literary Messenger.