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D. A. Niel

Arranger of "[Jerusalem, my happy home]" in Hymns New and Old, No. 2

D. B. Purinton

Person Name: "F. B. P." Author of "O Mother dear, Jerusalem!" in Hymns and Tunes for Schools

1823 - 1869 Composer of "GOING HOME" in New Christian Hymn and Tune Book Fillmore, Augustus Damon. (Gallia County, Ohio, September 7, 1823--June 10, 1870, Cincinnati, Ohio). Minister, Christian Church. Co-editor (with Silas White Leonard, 1814-1870) or Christian Psalmist (1847), which "probably had a more general circulation than any other of his publications." Author of "Come, come, come to the Saviour" and composer of several hymn tunes. --George Brandon, DNAH Archives

F. L. Wiseman

1858 - 1944 Person Name: F. L. Wiseman, 1858-1944 Composer of "BOCKING" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes

George L. Brown

Person Name: Geo. L. Brown Composer of "[Jerusalem, my happy home]" in The Highway Hymnal (Revised edition) Brown’s works include: The Highway Hymnal, with Isaiah Reid (Nevada, Iowa: Highway Office, 1886) Music: JACOB'S LADDER --www.hymntime.com/tch

William Bobo

1814 - 1887 Composer of "LONG SOUGHT HOME" in The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion (New ed. thoroughly rev. and much enl.) William Bobo was born in New Prospect, Union County, South Carolina and lived in Cross Keys. He was the nephew of B. F. White. He served as deacon, chorister and Sunday school superintendent at Padgett's Creek Baptist Church. He was buried at Padgett's Creek. His tune, LONG SOUGHT HOME, appeared in the 1847 edition of Walker's Southern Harmony Dianne Shapiro, from The Makers of the Sacred Harp by David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010)

George C. Hugg

1848 - 1907 Person Name: Geo. C. Hugg Composer of "[O Mother dear, Jerusalem]" in The Helper in Sacred Song George Crawford Hugg USA 1848-1907. Born near Haddonfield, NJ, he became choirmaster at the Berlin, NJ, Presbyterian Church at age 12. At age 14 he published his first song, “Walk in the light”, which became very popular. He married Anne E Ketchum, and they had a daughter, Evangeline. He served as choirmaster of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, and also the Broad Street and Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Churches there. He was also closely associated with the Harper Memorial Presbyterian Church there. He was a prolific composer with over 2000 works, publishing 18 books of revival and Sunday school music, and 90 songs for special occasions (Christmas, Easter, etc.). He died in Philadelphia, PA. John Perry

B. A. Bower

Composer of "[Jerusalem, my happy home]" in Beautiful Songs of Zion

James Carter Knox

1849 - 1930 Person Name: James C. Knox, M. A. Composer of "[O mother dear, Jerusalem]" in The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892