Background
Bird, Frederic Mayer was born on June 28, 1838 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Robert Montgomery and Mary E. (Mayer) Bird.
Bird, Frederic Mayer was born on June 28, 1838 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Robert Montgomery and Mary E. (Mayer) Bird.
Graduate University of Pennsylvania, 1857. Union Theological Seminary, 1860.
Rector Spotswood, New Jersey, 1870-1874. Chaplain and professor psychology, Christian evidences and rhetoric, Lehigh University, 1881-1886. Acting chaplain there, 1896-1898.
Editor Lippincott’s Magazine, 1893-1898.
Author: The Story of Our Christianity, 1893. Editor of several collections of hymns and writer on hymnology.
Associate editor of Chandler’s Encyclopedia, 1898. Home: South. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Married Frances P. Snowhill, April 26, 1877.