Wilbur F. Crafts

CRAFTS, Wilbur Fisk. b. Freyburg, Maine, 12 January 1850; d. Washington, DC, 27 December 1922. The son of a Methodist preacher, Crafts was educated at Wesleyan University (BA 1869) and at Boston University School of Theology (STB 1872). He was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1872, but in 1880 he became a Congregationalist and in 1883 a Presbyterian. One of the earliest of his many publications was Song Victories of ‘the Bliss and Sankey hymns’: being a collection of one hundred incidents in regard to the origin and power of the hymns contained in ‘Gospel hymns and sacred songs’ (Boston, Massachusetts and Dover, New Hampshire, 1877). His Trophies of Song, Articles and Incidents on the...