C. Whitney Coombs

Coombs, Charles Whitney, author of "Long years ago, o'er Bethlehem's hills" (Christmas Carol), was born at Bucksport, Me., in 1859. He was organist of the American Church at Dresden, Saxony, for a time, and since 1892 of the Church of the Holy Communion, N.Y. His carol was included in the Methodist Hymnal, 1905. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)