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William B. Bradbury
1816 - 1868 Person Name: Wm. B. Bradbury Composer of "WARNING" in New Christian Hymn and Tune Book William Batchelder Bradbury USA 1816-1868. Born at York, ME, he was raised on his father's farm, with rainy days spent in a shoe-shop, the custom in those days. He loved music and spent spare hours practicing any music he could find. In 1830 the family moved to Boston, where he first saw and heard an organ and piano, and other instruments. He became an organist at 15. He attended Dr. Lowell Mason's singing classes, and later sang in the Bowdoin Street church choir. Dr. Mason became a good friend. He made $100/yr playing the organ, and was still in Dr. Mason's choir. Dr. Mason gave him a chance to teach singing in Machias, ME, which he accepted. He returned to Boston the following year to marry Adra Esther Fessenden in 1838, then relocated to Saint John, New Brunswick. Where his efforts were not much appreciated, so he returned to Boston. He was offered charge of music and organ at the First Baptist Church of Brooklyn. That led to similar work at the Baptist Tabernacle, New York City, where he also started a singing class. That started singing schools in various parts of the city, and eventually resulted in music festivals, held at the Broadway Tabernacle, a prominent city event. He conducted a 1000 children choir there, which resulted in music being taught as regular study in public schools of the city. He began writing music and publishing it. In 1847 he went with his wife to Europe to study with some of the music masters in London and also Germany. He attended Mendelssohn funeral while there. He went to Switzerland before returning to the states, and upon returning, commenced teaching, conducting conventions, composing, and editing music books. In 1851, with his brother, Edward, he began manufacturring Bradbury pianos, which became popular. Also, he had a small office in one of his warehouses in New York and often went there to spend time in private devotions. As a professor, he edited 59 books of sacred and secular music, much of which he wrote. He attended the Presbyterian church in Bloomfield, NJ, for many years later in life. He contracted tuberculosis the last two years of his life.
John Perry
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Person Name: Anon. Author of "The harvest is passing, the summer will end" in The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
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John B. Hague
1813 - 1898 Person Name: J. B. Hayne Author of "Hark, sinner, while God from on high doth entreat thee" in New Christian Hymn and Tune Book Hague, John B., born in New Rochelle, New York, in 1813; entered the Baptist ministry in 1835, but retired in 1845 to undertake educational work. For some years he has been a lay member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In 1842 he published Hymns for Social and Private Worship, to which he contributed 7 hymns. From this collection his hymn, "Hark, sinner, while God from on high doth entreat thee" (Warning) is taken.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Hague attended Hamilton College (class of 1832) and the Newton Theological Institution (1832-35) and was ordained a Baptist minister in 1835 in Eastport, Maine. He pastored in Eastport until 1845, when he left the ministry for the educational field. He served schools in Jamaica Plain and Newton Centre, Massachusetts (1845-51); Hudson, New York (1850-70); and Hackensack, New Jersey, where he moved in 1870 and was still living in 1888. His works include: Hymns for Social and Private Worship, 1842
--www.hymntime.com/tch
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Hagues, John Bayley. (New Rochelle, New York, November 13, 1813--November 18, 1898, Hackensack, New Jersey). Graduate of Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., 1832, and Newton Theological Seminary, 1835. Awarded an honorary Ph.D. from Hamilton College in 1888 for his translations of Horace and Virgil. Pastor of the Baptist Church at Eastport, Maine, 1835-1845. Taught classics at girls' schools in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, 1845-1847, and Newton, Mass., 1847-1850. Principal of the Female Seminary, Hudson, N.Y., 1851-1870. First principal of Hackensack Academy, Hackensack, N.J., 1870-1898. Published a collection of seven hymns in 1842 entitled Hymns for Social and Private Worship (Eastport, Maine).
--Paul Hammond, DNAH Archives
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