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[Be kind to thy Father, for when thou wast young]

Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Isaac Baker Woodbury Incipit: 55655 11176 55616 Used With Text: Be Kind to the Loved Ones at Home

Be Kind to the Loved Ones at Home

Appears in 45 hymnals First Line: Be kind to thy Father, for when thou wast young Used With Tune: [Be kind to thy Father, for when thou wast young]

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Be kind to thy Father

Hymnal: Children's Praise #28 (1871) Languages: English Tune Title: [Be kind to thy Father]

Be Kind to the Loved Ones at Home

Hymnal: The Junior Hymnal #86 (1895) First Line: Be kind to thy Father, for when thou wast young Languages: English Tune Title: [Be kind to thy Father, for when thou wast young]

Be Kind to the Loved Ones at Home

Hymnal: The Standard Sunday School Hymnal #201 (1888) First Line: Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young Languages: English Tune Title: [Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young]

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I. B. Woodbury

1819 - 1858 Person Name: Isaac Baker Woodbury Composer of "[Be kind to thy Father, for when thou wast young]" in The Junior Hymnal Woodbury, Isaac Baker. (Beverly, Massachusetts, October 23, 1819--October 26, 1858, Columbia, South Carolina). Music editor. As a boy, he studied music in nearby Boston, then spent his nineteenth year in further study in London and Paris. He taught for six years in Boston, traveling throughout New England with the Bay State Glee Club. He later lived at Bellow Falls, Vermont, where he organized the New Hampshire and Vermont Musical Association. In 1849 he settled in New York City where he directed the music at the Rutgers Street Church until ill-health caused him to resign in 1851. He became editor of the New York Musical Review and made another trip to Europe in 1852 to collect material for the magazine. in the fall of 1858 his health broke down from overwork and he went south hoping to regain his strength, but died three days after reaching Columbia, South Carolina. He published a number of tune-books, of which the Dulcimer, of New York Collection of Sacred Music, went through a number of editions. His Elements of Musical Composition, 1844, was later issued as the Self-instructor in Musical Composition. He also assisted in the compilation of the Methodist Hymn Book of 1857. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives