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Oh the Mansions Over Yonder

Author: Laura E. Newell Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Oh! the mansions over yonder Refrain First Line: Oh! the home so bright Used With Tune: [Oh! the mansions over yonder]

[Oh! the mansions over yonder]

Appears in 7 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Geo. F. Rosche Tune Sources: German Incipit: 13555 67153 21716 Used With Text: Oh the Mansions Over Yonder

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Author: Laura E. Newell Hymnal: Gospel Hymn Selections for female voices #64 (1895) First Line: Oh, the mansions over yonder Refrain First Line: Oh! the home so bright o'er the river Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh, the mansions over yonder]

Oh the Mansions Over Yonder

Author: Laura E. Newell Hymnal: The New Song #75 (1891) First Line: Oh! the mansions over yonder Refrain First Line: Oh! the home so bright o'er the river Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh! the mansions over yonder]

Oh the Mansions Over Yonder

Author: Laura E. Newell Hymnal: Gospel Hymn Selections for Male Voices #91 (1896) First Line: Oh! the mansions over yonder Refrain First Line: Oh! the home so bright Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh! the mansions over yonder]

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Laura E. Newell

1854 - 1916 Author of "Oh the Mansions Over Yonder" in Gospel Hymn Selections for Male Voices Born: February 5, 1854, New Marlborough, Connecticut. Died: October 13, 1916, Manhattan, Kansas. Daughter of Mr. and Edward A. Pixley, but orphaned as an infant, Laura was adopted by her aunt, then Mrs. Hiram Mabie, who at the time lived in New York. In 1858, the Mabie family moved to a farm south of where Wamego, Kansas, now stands. Two years after the move, Mr. Mabie died, and his wife resumed teaching. In 1860, Mrs. Mabie accepted a position in Topeka, Kansas, where she taught many years. Under her tutelage, Laura received her education. As early as age 12, Laura was writing rhymes, and two years later her poems began to appear in local newspapers. She had no thought of a literary career; she simply wrote to give vent to her poetical mind. In 1871, Laura married Lauren Newell, a carpenter from Manhattan, Kansas. They had at least six children, and belonged to the Congregational denomination. In 1873, Laura was listening to an address by a speaker who lamented the death of "genuine" hymns, and she resolved to try her hand in that line of work. That began a long period of writing songs, sacred and secular, services for all anniversary occasions, cantatas, adapting words to music, and music to words. "Mrs. Newell is indeed a prolific writer. Her poems number in the thousands. She has had over eight hundred poems published in a single year, a most remarkable record. The great ease with which Mrs. Newell writes is one of her special gifts. Not long since an order, accompanied by music and titles, was sent her for eight poems to suit. At seven o’clock in the evening she sat down to her organ to catch the music. Then she went to her desk, and at ten o’clock the order was ready for the return mail. Her work pleased the publisher so well that he sent her an order for forty-eight additional poems. Mrs. Newell writes several hundred poems annually. She is a very modest and unpretentious lady, and goes about her daily work as cheerfully as her poems advise others to do. The deeply religious character of the woman stands out boldly in nearly all her work. The next world is apparently as real to her as the present. Her heart is in her work, and to the end of life’s chapter, while able, may she wield her pen to tell the Story to dear to her heart, in verse and song." Hall, pp. 316-17 http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/n/e/w/newell_lep.htm

Geo. F. Rosche

1855 - 1935 Arranger of "[Oh! the mansions over yonder]" in The New Song George F. Rosche In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, Rosche was publishing Gospel songs books, in German and English, in Chicago, Illinois. His works include: Perlen und Blüthen, with C. A. Weiss (Chicago, Illinois, 1890) Songs of Praise and Worship, (Chicago, Illinois, 1913) Music-- Children’s Praise Crown Him Have Faith in God He Keepeth Me, Ever Homeland, The Homeland of Jesus I’m Nearer My Home Lord, My Heart Is Rested Mercy at the Cross Resting in the Arms of Jesus Some Day, Somewhere There Never Was a Friend Like Jesus --hymntime.com/tch