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Little Eyes

Appears in 11 hymnals First Line: Little eyes, little eyes Open with the morning light Used With Tune: [Little eyes, little eyes Open with the morning light]

[Little eyes, little eyes]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Geo. B. Loomis Incipit: 12323 12345 43212 Used With Text: Little Eyes

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Hymnal: Chapel Gems for Sunday Schools #76b (1868) First Line: Little eyes, little eyes Open with the morning light Languages: English Tune Title: [Little eyes, little eyes Open with the morning light]

Little eyes, little eyes Open with the morning light

Author: B. R. Hanby Hymnal: Dainty Songs for Little Lads and Lasses #d59 (1887) Languages: English

Little eyes, little eyes Open with the morning light

Author: B. R. Hanby Hymnal: The Robin #d15 (1866)

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B. R. Hanby

1833 - 1867 Person Name: Rev. B. R. Hanby Author of "Little Eyes" in Little Sacred Songs Benjamin Russell Hanby was born July 22, 1833, the oldest of eight children, to Bishop William Hanby in Rushville, OH. The family moved to Westerville,OH where Bishop Hanby was a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. In his short life Benjamin graduated from Otterbein, taught school, became a United Brethren minister, started a singing school, was editor for John Church publishers in Cincinnati and composed many songs and hymns before he died of tuberculosis March 15, 1867. His home in Westerville was Ohio's first memorial to a composer. It was a stop on the Underground Railroad for slaves escaping to Canada and is a national historic site, a Methodist church Landmark and a Network to Freedom site for the National Park Service. There is a Hanby Residence Hall at Otterbein University. Best known for "Up on the housetop" and "Darling Nellie Gray," Hanby published many hymns including "Little Eyes" and "Who is He? Mary Louise VanDyke

George Brace Loomis

1833 - 1887 Person Name: Geo. B. Loomis Composer of "[Little eyes, little eyes]" in Chapel Gems for Sunday Schools George Brace Loomis was born in Bennington, New York, May 10, 1833. He early showed musical ability and was sent to New York City to be instructed by Lowell Mason. He taught music in Providence, Rhode Island, then came to Worcester, Ohio, and in 1964 was appointed superintendent of music in the public schools of Indianapolis, which position he held for seventeen years. During this time he published a series of music books [Progressive Music Lessons] which were used in the Indianapolis schools for years. Mr. Loomis was a decon in the First Baptist Church of Indianapolis. The Vawter Family in American: with the allied families of Branham, Wise, Stribling, Crawford, Lewis, Glover, Moncrief by Grace Vawter Bicknell (Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press, 1905