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B. R. Hanby
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Short Name: B. R. Hanby
Full Name: Hanby, B. R. (Benjamin Russell), 1833-1867
Birth Year: 1833
Death Year: 1867

Benjamin Russell Hanby was born July 22, 1833, the oldest of eight children, to Bishop William Hanby in Rushville, OH. The family moved to Westerville,OH where Bishop Hanby was a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. In his short life Benjamin graduated from Otterbein, taught school, became a United Brethren minister, started a singing school, was editor for John Church publishers in Cincinnati and composed many songs and hymns before he died of tuberculosis March 15, 1867. His home in Westerville was Ohio's first memorial to a composer. It was a stop on the Underground Railroad for slaves escaping to Canada and is a national historic site, a Methodist church Landmark and a Network to Freedom site for the National Park Service. There is a Hanby Residence Hall at Otterbein University. Best known for "Up on the housetop" and "Darling Nellie Gray," Hanby published many hymns including "Little Eyes" and "Who is He?

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Wikipedia Biography

Benjamin Russell Hanby (July 22, 1833 – March 16, 1867), also given as Benjamin Russel Hanby, was an American composer, educator, pastor, and abolitionist who wrote approximately 80 songs. The most famous are "Darling Nelly Gray" and the Christmas songs "Up on the House Top" and "Who Is He In Yonder Stall?". Hanby was born in Rushville, Ohio. He moved to Westerville, Ohio in 1849, at the age of sixteen, to enroll at Otterbein University. He was involved in the Underground Railroad with his father, Bishop William Hanby.

Tunes by B. R. Hanby (36)sort descendingAsInstancesIncipit
[A voice that I hear, across the sea]B. R. H. (Composer)455123 34433 43267
[Blessed Jesus, Prince of glory]B. R. Hanby (Composer)133532 55312 35421
[Come from the hilltop, the vale, and the glen]B. R. H. (Composer)3
[Down from the skies bending low over the manger]B. R. H. (Composer)455556 64543 11111
[Down in that cottage lives Weaver John]B. R. H. (Composer)2
[Hark, how your leader's bugle is sounding]B. R. Hanby (Composer)217215 17215 11234
[Harvest fields with golden glow]B. R. H. (Composer)331312 16165 12323
[Ho, ho, ho, out to the beautiful groves we go]B. R. H. (Composer)3
[Holy Father, grant Thy blessing]B. R. Hanby (Composer)133343 32571 22532
[I missed dear little Mabel from her class and school one]B. R. H. (Composer)3
[If the boys and girls will listen]B. R. H. (Composer)3
[Little floweret, press thy way] (Hanby)B. R. Hanby (Composer)334556 15123 34323
[Long ago when little children] (Hanby)B. R. H. (Composer)535156 11765 31332
['Mid the pastures green of the blessed isles]Rev. B. R. Hanby (Composer)734555 55665 56665
[Now to the Lord on high]B. R. H. (Composer)3
[We are voyagers on an ocean, and our destiny we know]B. R. Hanby (Composer)434555 65321 45671
[O sing to me of that better land]B. R. H. (Composer)3
[Chant] [O sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord]B. R. H. (Composer)356651 34556 65111
[Savior, we Thy children gather] (Hanby 33323)B. R. H. (Composer)233323 45355 43453
[Savior, we Thy children gather] (Hanby 55512)B. R. H. (Composer)355512 32215 56655
[See the Savior in the temple]B. R. H. (Composer)355534 55535 56531
[The fishers sat within their boat] (Hanby)B. R. H. (Composer)355515 12332 11217
[The sky was dark above]B. R. H. (Composer)3
[There's a bright, happy home high in heaven above]B. R. H. (Composer)3
[These Temperance folks do crowd us awfully]B. R. Hanby (Composer)253333 43321 32217
[They were watching on the hillsides]B. R. H. (Composer)554345 31321 23243
[Up the steeps the morn is bounding]B. R. H. (Composer)2
[Upon the house, no delay to pause]B. R. H. (Composer)2
[We are going home, when the toilsome day]B. R. H. (Composer)3
[We come, we come, a waiting band]B. R. H. (Composer)434565 34515 56176
[We have found the way to heaven]B. R. H. (Composer)113516 15312 33432
[Who is He in yonder stall] (Hanby)Benjamin Russell Hanby (Composer)6255555 56665 51121
[Willie laid him down to sleep]B. R. H. (Composer)3
[With eager step, and hearts in tune]B. R. H. (Composer)3
[Work in God's vineyard Jesus hath called thee]B. R. H. (Composer)3
[Young Bolter Brook is a beautiful brook]B. R. H. (Composer)3

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