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[To a dear and blessed country]
Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: P. P. Bilhorn Incipit: 13555 65321 11615 Used With Text: That Dear and Blessed Country
[To a dear and blessed country]
That Dear and Blessed Country
Author: Flora Kirkland Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: To a dear and blessed country Refrain First Line: I am going by and by to my mansion in the sky Used With Tune: [To a dear and blessed country]
That Dear and Blessed Country
That Dear and Blessed Country
Author: Flora Kirkland Hymnal: The Century Gospel Songs #44 (1901) First Line: To a dear and blessed country Refrain First Line: I am going by and by Languages: English Tune Title: [To a dear and blessed country]
That Dear and Blessed Country
That Dear and Blessed Country
Author: Flora Kirkland Hymnal: Sacred and Secular Selections #94 (1900) First Line: To a dear and blessed country Refrain First Line: I am going by and by to my mansion in the sky Languages: English Tune Title: [To a dear and blessed country]
That Dear and Blessed Country
That Dear and Blessed Country
Author: Flora Kirkland Hymnal: Voices of Victory #181 (1913) First Line: To a dear and blessed country Refrain First Line: I am going by and by to my mansion in the sky Languages: English Tune Title: [To a dear and blessed country]
That Dear and Blessed Country
P. P. Bilhorn
1865 - 1936 Composer of "[To a dear and blessed country]" in The Century Gospel Songs Pseudonyms: W. Ferris Britcher, Irene Durfee; C. Ferris Holden, P. H. Roblin (a anagram of his name)
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Peter Philip Bilhorn was born, in Mendota, IL. His father died in the Civil War 3 months before he was born. His early life was not easy. At age 8, he had to leave school to help support the family. At age 15, living in Chicago, he had a great singing voice and sang in German beer gardens there. At this time, he and his brother also formed the Eureka Wagon & Carriage Works in Chicago, IL. At 18 Peter became involved in gospel music, studying under George F. Root and George C. Stebbins. He traveled to the Dakotas and spent some time sharing the gospel with cowboys there. He traveled extensively with D. L. Moody, and was Billy Sunday's song leader on evangelistic endeavors. His evangelistic work took him into all the states of the Union, Great Britain, and other foreign countries. In London he conducted a 4000 voice choir in the Crystal Palace, and Queen Victoria invited him to sing in Buckinghm Palace. He wrote some 2000 gospel songs in his lifetime. He also invented a folding portable telescoping pump organ, weighing 16 lbs. It could be set up in about a minute. He used it at revivals in the late 19th century. He founded the Bilhorn Folding Organ Company in Chicago. IL, and his organ was so popular it was sold all over the world. He edited 10 hymnals and published 11 gospel songbooks. He died in Los Angeles, CA, in 1936.
John Perry
P. P. Bilhorn
Flora Kirkland
1862 - 1911 Author of "That Dear and Blessed Country" in The Century Gospel Songs Flora Kirkland was born in 1862 in Kentucky, before moving to Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from school she became a public school teacher for the seventh grade. She was a member of Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church for which she wrote a number of hymns. She was very active in the Wallabout Bay Mission in that neighborhood of Brooklyn. Most of Wallabout Bay would be filled in to make way for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She died 17 January 1911.
Brooklyn Standard Union, 16 January 1911
Flora Kirkland
