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George C. Hugg
1848 - 1907 Person Name: Geo. C. Hugg Composer of "[There's rest on the bosom of Jesus]" in Garlands of Praise George Crawford Hugg USA 1848-1907. Born near Haddonfield, NJ, he became choirmaster at the Berlin, NJ, Presbyterian Church at age 12. At age 14 he published his first song, “Walk in the light”, which became very popular. He married Anne E Ketchum, and they had a daughter, Evangeline. He served as choirmaster of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, and also the Broad Street and Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Churches there. He was also closely associated with the Harper Memorial Presbyterian Church there. He was a prolific composer with over 2000 works, publishing 18 books of revival and Sunday school music, and 90 songs for special occasions (Christmas, Easter, etc.). He died in Philadelphia, PA.
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Harriet M. Kimball
1834 - 1917 Person Name: H. E. K. Author of "There's Rest on the Bosom of Jesus" in Westminster Sabbath School Hymnal, a collection of hymns and tunes for use in sabbath-schools and social meetings Kimball, Harriet McEwan, a native and resident of Portsmouth, Newhaven, is the author of Hymns, Boston, 1866; Swallow Flights of Song, 1874, &c. Her hymns include:—
1. At times on Tabor's height. Faith and Joy
2. Dear Lord, to Thee alone. Lent.
3. It is an easy thing to say. Humble Service.
4. We have no tears Thou wilt not dry. Affliction. Appeared in the Poets of Portsmouth, 1864, and the Unitarian Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, and others. In Miss Kimball's Hymns, 1866, this hymn begins with stanza iii. of "Jesus the Ladder of my faith."
Several of Miss Kimball's poems were included in Baynes's Illustrated Book of Sacred Poems, 1867. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Kimball, Harriet M., p. 624, ii., b. Nov. 2, 1834, and a Roman Catholic. From her hymn, "Jesus, the Ladder of my faith," p. 624, iii. 3, another cento, beginning "Sweeter to Jesus when on earth/* is taken. It is in The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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Horace E. Kimball
1839 - 1901 Person Name: H. E. Kimball Author of "Rest, rest, rest" in The Chautauqua Collection Horace Esterbrook Kimball was born in Clyde, New York, Sept. 28th, 1839, but was raised in Orange, New Jersey. He served in the 4th New York Heavy Artillery during the Civil War, and commanded a company of the 10th U.S. Colored Troops Heavy Artillery in the garrison forces in New Orleans until 1867. After the war Kimball worked as a printer in Chicago, and rose to be chief editor of Brainard's Musical World (Cleveland, Ohio) for a brief time. He returned to New Jersey by 1880 and died there Nov. 10, 1901. His New method for the reed organ: a complete progressive and practical system of instruction (Brainard's Sons, 1872) was widely popular. He was baptized into the New Jerusalem Church (Swedenborgian) in Chicago in 1868 by J. R. Hibberd.
Sources:
FamilySearch, "The Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 22 March 2025), Horace Esterbrook Kimball (LH6D-DGL), Details. https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/LH6D-DGL
Davenport, Robert Ralsey. The Davenport Genealogy: History and Genealogy of the Ancestors and Descendants of the Rev. John Davenport, Founder of New Haven, Connecticut, and of Yale College. Cambridge, Mass.: R.R. Davenport, 1982.
Journal of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Illinois Association of the New Jerusalem Church (Chicago, Oct. 23rd-25th, 1868).
Kimball, Horace E. Kimball's New Method for the Reed Organ. Cleveland: Brainard's Sons, 1872. https://liberty.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17184coll14/id/16246/rec/25
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