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Grant us, Lord, Thy blessed favor

Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: NETTLETON

[Grant us, Lord, Thy blessed favor]

Appears in 318 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: I. B. Woodbury Incipit: 33312 23356 53132 Used With Text: Grant us, Lord, Thy Favor

NETTLETON

Appears in 824 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Wyeth Incipit: 32113 52235 65321 Used With Text: Grant us, Lord, Thy blessed favor

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Author: Palmer Hartsough Hymnal: The Gospel Call, Part Two #393 (1897) First Line: Grant us, Lord, Thy blessed favor Languages: English Tune Title: [Grant us, Lord, Thy blessed favor]

Grant us, Lord, Thy blessed favor

Hymnal: The Praise Hymnal #18 (1896) Languages: English Tune Title: NETTLETON

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Palmer Hartsough

1844 - 1932 Author of "Grant us, Lord, Thy Favor" in The Gospel Call, Part Two Rv Palmer Hartsough USA 1844-1932. Born in Redford, MI, he attended Kalamazoo College and Michigan State Normal school (later MSU). He became an author, editor, lyricist, and librettist. After working as a traveling singing teacher in MI, IL, IA, OH, KY and TN, he opened a music studio in Rock Island, IL, around 1877, also directing music at a Baptist church there. In 1893, due to his poetic abilities, he moved to Cincinnati, OH, and joined the Fillmore Music Company, providing texts (over 1000) for their music. He also served as music director at the Bethel Mission and the 9th Street Baptist Church. He became a traveling song evangelist in 1903, and was ordained a Baptist minister in 1906, serving in Ontario, Canada, and MI from 1914 to 1927. He then returned to Plymouth, MI, where he lived the rest of his life. He never married, but was close to his two sisters, and wrote them a weekly letter for many years. With Fillmore Company he helped publish 20 songbooks. He died in Plymouth, MI. John Perry

I. B. Woodbury

1819 - 1858 Composer of "[Grant us, Lord, Thy blessed favor]" in The Gospel Call, Part Two Woodbury, Isaac Baker. (Beverly, Massachusetts, October 23, 1819--October 26, 1858, Columbia, South Carolina). Music editor. As a boy, he studied music in nearby Boston, then spent his nineteenth year in further study in London and Paris. He taught for six years in Boston, traveling throughout New England with the Bay State Glee Club. He later lived at Bellow Falls, Vermont, where he organized the New Hampshire and Vermont Musical Association. In 1849 he settled in New York City where he directed the music at the Rutgers Street Church until ill-health caused him to resign in 1851. He became editor of the New York Musical Review and made another trip to Europe in 1852 to collect material for the magazine. in the fall of 1858 his health broke down from overwork and he went south hoping to regain his strength, but died three days after reaching Columbia, South Carolina. He published a number of tune-books, of which the Dulcimer, of New York Collection of Sacred Music, went through a number of editions. His Elements of Musical Composition, 1844, was later issued as the Self-instructor in Musical Composition. He also assisted in the compilation of the Methodist Hymn Book of 1857. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives