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Marching onward

Author: Hezekiah Butterworth Appears in 10 hymnals First Line: We are marching home to Zion

[We are marching home to Zion]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. T. Giffe Incipit: 12333 33211 21165 Used With Text: Marching Home to Zion

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Author: W. T. G. Hymnal: Onward and Upward No. 2 #190 (1900) First Line: We are marching home to Zion Refrain First Line: Marching home, we're marching Languages: English Tune Title: [We are marching home to Zion]

Marching On to Zion

Author: W. T. G. Hymnal: Children of Zion #36 (1891) First Line: We are marching home to Zion Refrain First Line: Marching home, we're marching Languages: English Tune Title: [We are marching home to Zion]

Marching Home to Zion

Author: W. T. G. Hymnal: New Onward and Upward #190 (1909) First Line: We are marching home to Zion Refrain First Line: Marching home, we're marching Languages: English Tune Title: [We are marching home to Zion]

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W. T. Giffe

1848 - 1926 Person Name: W. T. G. Author of "Marching Home to Zion" in New Onward and Upward Born: June 28, 1848, Portland, Indiana. Died: July 13, 1926, Seattle, Washington. Buried: Mount Hope Cemetery, Logansport, Indiana. Giffe grew up in College Corners, Indiana (near Portland), and served in the Army during the closing days of the American civil war. After the war, he attended Liber College, and studied law for two years. While in college, he was a member of the college glee club, and took lessons in the college singing school. Later, he studied with teachers such as J. W. Suffern, George Root, Luther Emerson, Horatio Palmer, and Henry Perkins. Giffe had a fine baritone voice, and was in demand as a concert singer. He soon became popular as a chorus director and convention conductor. His first book for singing schools was New Favorite, which sold thousands of copies. The Oliver Ditson Company of Boston, Massachusetts, published many of his early works, but Giffe went on to form his own publishing house, the Home Music Company, in Logansport, Indiana. He also edited the Home Music Journal for several years. Later, Giffe became supervisor of music in the public schools in his home town. And he was one of three men selected to deliver an address in Logansport, Indiana, at the memorial services for assassinated president William McKinley. Giffe and his wife Nancy had no children. His works include: The Brilliant, 1874 Crown of Gold, with Frank Davis (Logansport, Indiana: Home Music Company, 1892) The New Deal, with Louis Eichhorn (Logansport, Indiana: Home Music Company, 1898) A Practical Course in Harmony and Musical Composition --www.hymntime.com/tch

Hezekiah Butterworth

1839 - 1905 Author of "Marching onward" in Heart and Voice Butterworth, Hezekiah, was born at Warren, Rhode Island, Dec. 22, 1839. He wrote The Story of the Hymns, American Tract Society, 1875. He is the author of "0 Church of Christ, our blest abode" (The Church) in Root's cantata, Under the Palms, and of "Jesus, I Thee believe" (Jesus All in All) in the cantata Faith Triumphant. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ========================= Butterworth, Hezekiah, was born at Warren, R.I., Dec. 22, 1839, and died in 1905. His hymn, "Little ones of God are we" (Christ's Lambs), in the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905, and other collections, is dated 1870. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)