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Frederic Bird was born on June 28, 1838, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of Robert Montgomery Bird and of Mary Mayer, whose father, Philip Mayer, was for fifty-two years pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church on Race St.
After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1857 Bird entered Hartwick Lutheran Theological Seminary at Hartwick, New York. After one year at Hartwick 1858-1859 he transferred to Union Theological Seminary in New York, graduated in 1860.
Bird was ordained to the Lutheran ministry September 3, 1861, was pastor at Rhinebeck, New York, 1860-1862, was chaplain in the United States Army 1862-1863, was pastor at West Philadelphia 1865-1866 and at Valatie, New York, 1866-1868, was ordained a deacon of the Episcopal Church October 25, 1868, and priest June 18, 1869, was rector at Spots-wood, New Jersey, 1870-1874, and in Indianapolis 1874, was temporary supply at Hightstown, New Jersey, 1875-1876, was rector at Iowa City, 1877-1878, and at Waterloo, Iowa, 1879-1881, and was chaplain and professor of psychology and rhetoric in Lehigh University, 1881-1886.
Bird published Charles Wesley Seen in His Finer and Less Familiar Poems in 1867, with Beale Melancthon Schmucker. He also did much miscellaneous work for various encyclopedias, published two novels, A Pessimist in Theory and Practice (1888) and An Alien from the Commonwealth (1889) under the name of "Robert Timsol, " was editor of Lippincott's Magazine, 1893-1898, and wrote for it various articles, including some breezy disquisitions on the art of fiction, and in 1893 brought out The Story of Our Christianity. During his latter years he made his home in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he died.
Frederic Bird was a well-known hymnologist of his time. He did most of the work on Hymns for the Use of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (1865), which has had a wide and wholesome influence on American Lutheran hymnody; collaborated with Bishop Odenheimer on Hymns of the Spirit (1871); and contributed hymnological articles to the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia, to Jackson's Concise Dictionary of Religious Knowledge, and to Julian's Dictionary of Hymnology. His hymnological library included about 3, 000 volumes and was said to be the largest in the United States.
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In 1877 Bird married Frances Snowhill of Spotswood, New Jersey.
