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Bye and bye, waiting heart

Author: Sanford Fillmore Bennett Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: When will the sweet tomorrow
Bye and bye, waiting heart

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Sweet tomorrow

Author: Sanford F. Bennett Hymnal: Soul Songs for Sunday Schools #d160 (1885) First Line: When will the sweet tomorrow Refrain First Line: By and by
Sweet tomorrow

Bye and bye, waiting heart

Author: Sanford F. Bennett Hymnal: Glorious Tidings #d177 (1878) First Line: When will the sweet tomorrow Languages: English
Bye and bye, waiting heart

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Sanford Fillmore Bennett

1836 - 1898 Person Name: Sanford F. Bennett Author of "Sweet tomorrow" in Soul Songs for Sunday Schools Sanford Fillmore Bennett was born in Eden, New York, 21 June 1836. He and his parents moved to Plainfield, Illinois when he was two years old. He worked on the farm and attended district school during the winter. He was a voracious reader. At sixteen he entered Waukegon Academy. Two years later he began teaching at Wauconda. In 1858 he entered the University of Michigan, Afterward he had charge of the schools in Richmond, Illinois. Two years later he resigned and became Associate Editor of the Independent at Elkhorn, Wisconsin. In 1864 he enlisted in the Wisconsin Volunteers and served as Second Lieutenant. After the war he returned to Elkhorn and opened a drug store and began the study of medicine. He graduated from Rush Medical College in 1874. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
Sanford Fillmore Bennett
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