Franklin L. Sheppard (1852-1930) was a well-known Christian hymn composer who set the poem, This is My Father's World, to music.
Sheppard attended William Fewsmith's Classical School and the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated as valedictorian in 1872.
In 1875, Sheppard moved to Boston, Massachusetts, to run the foundry for his father's stove and heater manufacturing company.
Shepard attended the Zion Protestant Episcopal Church in Boston, but later switched to Presbyterianism.
In 1915 Shepard set to music, "This is My Father's World," a poem written by Maltbie Davenport Babcock, a minister from New York, who had been a close friend of Sheppard's.