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<h2>Rossiter Worthington Raymond</h2>
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<h2>1840-1918</h2>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<td><em>Born:</em> April 27, 1840, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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<p><em>Pseudonym:</em> Robertson Gray.</td>
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<td width="200" align="center"><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_r_a_raymond_rw.jpg" alt="Rossiter Worthington Raymond (1840-1918)" width="133.333333333333" height="193.333333333333"><br>
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<span class="cou">Courtesy of American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers</span></td>
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<p class="just">A member of Henry Ward Beecher’s Plymouth Church, Raymond held degrees from the Brookfield Polytechnic Institute (1857), Lafayette College (Ph.D. 1868), Leigh University (LL.D 1906), and the University of Pittsburgh (honorary LL.D. 1915). He served as the United States Commissioner of Mining Statistics, and was secretary of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum
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Engineers (1884-1911). In 1945, the institute named its Rossiter W. Raymond Memorial Award after him, to recognize the best paper published by a member under 33 years of age. Rossiter lived in Brooklyn, New York, at least part of his life, and wrote at least one Western novel:</p>
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<li><em>Brave Hearts</em>, 1873</li>
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<p>One of Raymond’s best known quotes is:</p>
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<p>Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.</p>
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<p><em>Hymns:</em></p>
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<li><a href = "./hymns/hymns_html/htm_m_o_mornired.html" >Morning Red</a></li>
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<li>Date & place of death</li>
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<li>Burial place</li>
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