Over to Canaan I'm going

Author: E. Heritage

Elphrey Heritage lived in Philadelphia, was associated with the publisher S. C. Collins of that city, and composed hymn tunes that appeared inter alia in The Hesperian Harp (1848), The Timbrel of Zion (1853), and The Social Harp (1855). He was the brother of Jason Heritage of New Jersey. (Source: Daniel W. Patterson's "Introduction" to the 1973 reprint of The Social Harp, xii-xiii) Go to person page >