Introduction

Biography

Nutter, a Methodist min­is­ter, gra­du­ate­d from the Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts, School of Theo­lo­gy in 1871, the year when the school merged with Bos­ton Uni­ver­si­ty.

The pre­face to his 1911 Hymns and Hymn Writ­ers in­di­cates he was in Ber­wick Park, Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts, in 1911.

By 1913, he was teach­ing hym­no­lo­gy at Bo­ston Uni­ver­si­ty.

Works

• Hymn Stu­dies: An Il­lus­trat­ed and An­no­tat­ed Ed­it­ion of the Hym­nal of the Me­tho­dist Epis­co­pal Church (New York and Cin­cin­na­ti: Ea­ton & Mains and Jen­nings & Pye, fifth edi­tion 1884)
• What the Pil­grim Fa­thers Sang
• Historic Hym­nists
• The Hymns and Hymn Writ­ers of the Church, An An­no­tat­ed Edi­tion of the Me­tho­dist Hym­nal, with Wil­bur Fisk Til­lett (New York; Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see; and Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: Smith & La­mar, Ea­ton & Mains, and Jen­nings & Gra­ham, 1911)