Herbert Buffum was born in La Fayette, Illinois 13 November 1879. He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He started preaching at seventeen years of age. He did city mission work up and down the Pacific Coast and later in small towns in Kansas. He began publishing hymns at the age of eighteen.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >
Tune Title: [My heart was always restless I sought peace ev'rywhere]First Line: My heart was always restless I sought peace ev'rywhereComposer: R. E. WinsettDate: 1944
Tune Title: [My heart was always restless I sought peace everywhere]First Line: My heart was always restless I sought peace everywhereComposer: Herbert Buffum; R. E. WinsettDate: 1929