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Short Name: Henry K. Oliver
Full Name: Oliver, Henry K. (Henry Kemble), 1800-1885
Birth Year: 1800
Death Year: 1885

Henry Kemble Oliver (b. Beverly, MA, 1800; d. Salem, MA, 1885) was educated at Harvard and Dartmouth. He taught in the public schools of Salem (1818-1842) and was superintendent of the Atlantic Cotton Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts (1848-1858). His civic service included being mayor of Lawrence (1859­1861) and Salem (1877-1880), state treasurer (1861-1865), and organizer of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics and Labor (1867-1873). Oliver was organist at several churches, including Park Street Congregational Church in Boston, North Church in Salem, and the Unitarian Church in Lawrence. A founder of the Mozart Association and several choral societies in Salem, he published his hymn tunes in Hymn and Psalm Tunes (1860) and Original Hymn Tunes (1875).

Bert Polman


Tunes by Henry K. Oliver (11)sort descendingAsInstancesIncipit
CHESTNUT STREET (Oliver)H. K. Oliver (Composer)255111 71257 13451
CLONBERNE (Oliver)Henry Kemble Oliver (Composer)233332 25443 36545
PARK STREETHenry K. Oliver (Composer)111112 32171 33334
FEDERAL STREETHenry K. Oliver (Composer)59133343 55434 44334
GILGAL (Oliver)Henry Oliver (Composer)151564 32171 32217
HARMONY GROVE (Oliver)Henry K. Oliver (Composer)4133335 12333 33344
HEBRON (Mason)H. K. Oliver (Composer)253565 67117 23176
MERTON (Oliver)Henry Kemble Oliver, 1800-1885 (Composer)1956712 31132 27652
OTTO (Oliver)H. K. Oliver (Composer)211223 32235 43221
SAXONY (Oliver)Henry Kemble Oliver, (1800-1885) (Composer)455312 12315 531
WALNUT GROVEH. K. Oliver (Composer)834323 55456 55143

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