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Karl P. Harrington
1861 - 1953 Composer of "WEIHNACHT" in The Methodist Hymnal Born: June 13, 1861, Somersworth, New Hampshire.
Died: November 14, 1953, Berkeley, California.
Buried: Middletown, Connecticut.
Son of Calvin S. and Eliza Chase Harrington, Karl earned his AB degree in 1882, and his AM in 1885, from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He studied at the University of Berlin (1887-89) and Yale University (1890-91). He taught high school in Westfield, Massachusetts (1882-85); Latin at Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham, Massachusetts (1885-87); was a Latin tutor at Wesleyan University (1889-91); Latin professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1891-99); University of Maine (1899-1905); and Wesleyan University (1905). While at the University of North Carolina, he directed the Glee Club. His works include:
The Roman Elegiac Poets, circa 1914
Richard Alsop, "a Hartford Wit"
Walks and Climbs in the White Mountains, 1926
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
Karl P. Harrington
C. Whitney Coombs
1859 - 1940 Author of "Long years ago o'er Bethlehem's hills" in The Methodist Hymnal (Text only edition) Coombs, Charles Whitney, author of "Long years ago, o'er Bethlehem's hills" (Christmas Carol), was born at Bucksport, Me., in 1859. He was organist of the American Church at Dresden, Saxony, for a time, and since 1892 of the Church of the Holy Communion, N.Y. His carol was included in the Methodist Hymnal, 1905. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
C. Whitney Coombs
Alfred G. Wathall
1880 - 1938 Person Name: Alfred George Wathall Composer of "FESTGESANG" in The Cyber Hymnal
Alfred G. Wathall
R. Leigh
1839 - 1916 Person Name: Leigh Richmond Brewer Author of "Long years ago o'er Bethlehem's hills" in The Methodist Hymnal Born: January 20, 1839, Berkshire, Vermont.
Died: August 28, 1916.
Buried: Forestvale Cemetery, Helena, Montana.
Brewer was educated at Hobart College and General Theological Seminary, and was ordained in 1866. He served as Rector of Grace Church, Carthage, New York (1866-72) and Trinity Church, Watertown, New York (1872-80). He was consecrated as Missionary Bishop of Montana in 1880, and was living in Helena, Montana, as of 1911.
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
R. Leigh
