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George Washington Bethune (1805–1862)
Bethune, George Washington (be-thön’). A distinguished American Dutch Reformed clergyman and poet; born in New York, March 18, 1805; died at Florence, Italy, April 27, 1862. He was a most lovable man, noted as an orator and a wit. He had charges at Rhinebeck and Utica, NY, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and New York City. Besides religious works he wrote: ‘British Female Poets’; ‘Lays of Love and Faith’ (1847), several of the hymns in which are widely used. He also published an edition of Izaak Walton’s ‘Complete Angler’ (1846); etc.