Indelible Grace Hymnbook

Born: Ap­ril 4, 1862, Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts.

Died: Au­gust 24, 1917, Di­nard, France.

Buried: Mount Au­burn Cem­e­te­ry, Cam­bridge, Mass­a­chu­setts.

Shurtleff grad­u­at­ed from An­do­ver The­ological Sem­i­nary and was or­dained a Con­gre­ga­tion­al min­is­ter. He served in Buen­a­ven­tura, Cal­i­for­nia; Ply­mouth, Mass­a­chu­setts; and Min­ne­ap­o­lis, Min­ne­so­ta. He spent the last part of his ca­reer in Eu­rope, found­ing the Amer­i­can Church in Frank­furt am Main, Ger­ma­ny, in 1895, and work­ing at the Acad­emy Vit­ti in Par­is, France. His works in­clude:

Poems, 1883
New Year’s Peace, 1885
Songs of Hope, 1886
Shadow of the An­gel, 1886

Source: The Cyber Hymnal