Edmund Sears, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEdmund Sears
American minister
Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1810
Date of Death: 14-Jan-1876
Profession: writer, clergyman
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Edmund Sears
- Edmund Hamilton Sears (April 6, 1810 – January 14, 1876) was an American Unitarian parish minister and author who wrote a number of theological works influencing 19th-century liberal Protestants.
- Today, Sears is primarily known as the man who penned the words to "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" in 1849.
- It has been sung to two tunes, one by Richard Storrs Willis and another adapted by Arthur Sullivan from a traditional English air. Sears originally wrote the song as a melancholy reflection on his times while a minister in Wayland, Massachusetts, US.
- However, "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" has since become a popular Christmas carol.
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