Julia Cory

CORY, Julia Bulkley (née Cady). b. New York City, 19 November 1882; d. Englewood, New Jersey, 1 May 1963. Her famous architect father, J. Cleveland Cady (1837-1919), was also an amateur hymnologist and the superintendent of the Church of the Covenant’s Sunday School, New York City, for 52 years. Partly because of his influence, Julia began to write hymns from the early age of eight. ‘We praise thee, O God, our Redeemer, Creator’* is her most memorable text; ‘There is a tender shepherd’ is found in many Sunday-school books. She attended the Brearly and the Reynolds Schools in New York City, and later was a member of the Brick Presbyterian Church there. She married Robert Haskell Cory in 1911...