Christopher Rubey Blackall

BLACKALL, Christopher Rubey (or Ruby).  b. New York State, 18 September 1830; d. 25 January 1924. Blackall trained and worked as a doctor, including service in the Union army during the Civil War. After the war he became secretary of the American Baptist Publication Society for the North West in 1867. He wrote a history of the Society, entitled A Story of Six Decades (Philadelphia, 1885). Blackall had a special interest in hymns for children: he published Gems for the Little Ones (Philadelphia, 1869); he taught in a Sunday School (see Sunday school hymns, USA*); and he edited various religious magazines, such as The Baptist Teacher for Sunday School Workers (January 1909-December 1911),...