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A home in heaven

Author: Sophia T. Griswold Appears in 4 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: We are going home, when the toilsome day

[We are going home, when the toilsome day]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: B. R. H. Hymnal Title: Chapel Gems for Sunday Schools Used With Text: A home in heaven

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Hymnal: Chapel Gems for Sunday Schools #54 (1866) Hymnal Title: Chapel Gems for Sunday Schools First Line: We are going home, when the toilsome day Languages: English Tune Title: [We are going home, when the toilsome day]

A home in heaven

Hymnal: Chapel Gems for Sunday Schools #54 (1868) Hymnal Title: Chapel Gems for Sunday Schools First Line: We are going home, when the toilsome day Languages: English Tune Title: [We are going home, when the toilsome day]

A Home in Heaven

Author: Sophia T. Griswold Hymnal: Chapel Gems #d94 (1894) Hymnal Title: Chapel Gems First Line: We are going home, when the toilsome day Languages: English

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Sophia T. Griswold

1828 - 1903 Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project Author of "A home in heaven" Sophia (Paulina) Taylor Griswold Canada/USA 1828-1903. Born in Canada, she moved to the U.S. and lived in Chicago, IL. She married Dr William R Griswold, a native of New York, and they had one daughter, Eva. She was a poet who wrote hymn lyrics for tunes composed by hymnists George Root, Philip Bliss, George Stebbins and others. She died in Chicago. John Perry

B. R. Hanby

1833 - 1867 Person Name: B. R. H. Hymnal Title: Chapel Gems for Sunday Schools Composer of "[We are going home, when the toilsome day]" in Chapel Gems for Sunday Schools 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