Born: De­cem­ber 22, 1808, Monson, Mass­a­chu­setts.

Died: De­cem­ber 16, 1832, New York City.

By age 14, Dut­ton was play­ing the or­gan at Cen­ter Church in Hart­ford, Con­nec­ti­cut. He at­tend­ed Brown Un­i­ver­si­ty and Wash­ing­ton (now Trin­i­ty) Coll­ege (grad­u­at­ed 1828), and was li­censed to preach by the Third Pres­by­tery of New York, though he ne­ver re­ceived a pas­tor­ate, and was still pur­su­ing his stu­dies at the time of his death. His works in­clude:

• The Amer­i­can Psalm­o­dy, 1829 (with Elam Ives, Jr.)

Sources

Music

1. Woodstock (Dutton)