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John Warrington Hatton

1710 - 1793 Person Name: John Hatton, d.1793 Composer of "DUKE STREET" in Pilgrim Hymnal John Warrington Hatton (b. Warrington, England, c. 1710; d, St. Helen's, Lancaster, England, 1793) was christened in Warrington, Lancashire, England. He supposedly lived on Duke Street in Lancashire, from where his famous tune name comes. Very little is known about Hatton, but he was most likely a Presbyterian, and the story goes that he was killed in a stagecoach accident. Bert Polman
John Warrington Hatton

Henry K. Oliver

1800 - 1885 Person Name: Henry Kemble Oliver Composer of "FEDERAL STREET" in At Worship Henry Kemble Oliver (b. Beverly, MA, 1800; d. Salem, MA, 1885) was educated at Harvard and Dartmouth. He taught in the public schools of Salem (1818-1842) and was superintendent of the Atlantic Cotton Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts (1848-1858). His civic service included being mayor of Lawrence (1859­1861) and Salem (1877-1880), state treasurer (1861-1865), and organizer of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics and Labor (1867-1873). Oliver was organist at several churches, including Park Street Congregational Church in Boston, North Church in Salem, and the Unitarian Church in Lawrence. A founder of the Mozart Association and several choral societies in Salem, he published his hymn tunes in Hymn and Psalm Tunes (1860) and Original Hymn Tunes (1875). Bert Polman
Henry K. Oliver

Joseph Mainser

Author of "O God, above the drifting years" in The New Hymnal of Praise
Joseph Mainser

John Wright Buckham

1864 - 1945 Person Name: John W. Buckham, 1864-1945 Author of "O God, Above the Drifting Years" in Pilgrim Hymnal Buckham, John Wright, D.D., an American Congregational minister, born at Burlington, Vt., in 1864, and educated at the University of Vermont. Pastor in Conway, N.H., and Salem, Mass., Professor of Christian Theology, Pacific Theological Seminary, Berkely, Cal., 1903, D.D. Univ. of Vermont, 1904. His hymn, "Hills of God, break forth in singing" (Christmas), appeared in Whence cometh Help, 1902. Included in The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
John Wright Buckham

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