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Short Name: | Mrs. Herrick Johnson |
Full Name: | Johnson, Herrick, Mrs., -1907 |
Birth Year (est.): | 1835 |
Death Year: | 1907 |
Johnson, Catherine, wife of the Rev. Herrick Johnson, D.D., a Presbyterian minister in Chicago, is the author of “An earthly temple here we build" (Laying Foundation Stone of a Place of Worship), which in Hatfield's Church Hymns, N. Y., 1872, is dated 1866. Another hymn by this author is given in an abridged form in Stryker's Church Song, N. Y., 1889, as "The whole wide world for Jesus." Sometimes dated May 9, 1872.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Johnson, Catherine, née Hardenbergh, p. 1575, i. Mrs. Johnson, daughter of John H. Hardenbergh, was b. at Auburn, N.Y., in 1835, and m. in 1860. Her hymn, "An earthly temple here we build," was written in Pittsburgh for the dedication of a church in 1866; and her "The whole wide world for Jesus," on May 9, 1872, for a meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of Baltimore. Her children's hymn, "We are so happy, God's own little flock," is widely used in America. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Texts by Mrs. Herrick Johnson (4)![]() | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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An earthly temple here we raise | Catherine H. Johnson (Author) | English | 10 |
Happy are we, God's own little flock | H. Johnson (Author) | English | 5 |
The whole wide world for Jesus; Once more before we part | Mrs. Catherine H. Johnson (Author) | English | 2 |
What shall we do for the Master so dear? | Mrs. Herrick Johnson (Author) | English | 2 |