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William B. Bradbury
1816 - 1868 Person Name: Wm. B. Bradbury Composer of "[O toilers, grow not weary]" in The Gospel Trumpet William Batchelder Bradbury USA 1816-1868. Born at York, ME, he was raised on his father's farm, with rainy days spent in a shoe-shop, the custom in those days. He loved music and spent spare hours practicing any music he could find. In 1830 the family moved to Boston, where he first saw and heard an organ and piano, and other instruments. He became an organist at 15. He attended Dr. Lowell Mason's singing classes, and later sang in the Bowdoin Street church choir. Dr. Mason became a good friend. He made $100/yr playing the organ, and was still in Dr. Mason's choir. Dr. Mason gave him a chance to teach singing in Machias, ME, which he accepted. He returned to Boston the following year to marry Adra Esther Fessenden in 1838, then relocated to Saint John, New Brunswick. Where his efforts were not much appreciated, so he returned to Boston. He was offered charge of music and organ at the First Baptist Church of Brooklyn. That led to similar work at the Baptist Tabernacle, New York City, where he also started a singing class. That started singing schools in various parts of the city, and eventually resulted in music festivals, held at the Broadway Tabernacle, a prominent city event. He conducted a 1000 children choir there, which resulted in music being taught as regular study in public schools of the city. He began writing music and publishing it. In 1847 he went with his wife to Europe to study with some of the music masters in London and also Germany. He attended Mendelssohn funeral while there. He went to Switzerland before returning to the states, and upon returning, commenced teaching, conducting conventions, composing, and editing music books. In 1851, with his brother, Edward, he began manufacturring Bradbury pianos, which became popular. Also, he had a small office in one of his warehouses in New York and often went there to spend time in private devotions. As a professor, he edited 59 books of sacred and secular music, much of which he wrote. He attended the Presbyterian church in Bloomfield, NJ, for many years later in life. He contracted tuberculosis the last two years of his life.
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Mrs. E. B. Hopkins
Person Name: Mrs. E. B. H. Author (Chorus) of "A Hymn for Christian Workers" in The Gospel Trumpet Sarah W. Hopkins (1843-1927) compiled the song book, The Gospel Trumpet, for the use of Missionary Societies and Children’s Bands in 1890. Her name is given as “Mrs. E. B. Hopkins” because she was married to Dr. Elisha B Hopkins (1824-1899) of Madison, NY. Both were active in the Utica District of the Northern New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Sarah Hopkins served on the Board of Control for Deaconess Work for the Conference and was the District President of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1889. Her husband was ordained as a Deacon as well as a Local Preacher. The tunes of a number of the songs in The Gospel Trumpet were written or arranged by Sarah Hopkins.
Alan M. Guenther from:
-“New York Branch,” Heathen Woman’s Friend 21 (Sept. 1889), p. 71.
-“Recent Publications,” Heathen Woman’s Friend 22 (Nov. 1890), p. 110.
-Minutes of the Twenty-Third Session, Northern New York Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church (Syracuse, NY: Hunt & Eaton, University Press, 1895), p. 7.
-Minutes of the Eighth Session of the Northern New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church (Ilion, NY: Citizen Steam Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1880), p. 16-24.
-John E. Smith, ed., Our Country and its People: A Descriptive and Biographical Record of Madison County, New York (Boston: Boston History Company, 1899), p. 378.
-Find A Grave Memorial website for Elisha B. Hopkins
Mrs. E. B. Hopkins
Annie Howe Thomson
1833 - 1877 Author of "A Hymn for Christian Workers" in The Gospel Trumpet
Annie Howe Thomson
