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A. Brooks Everett
1828 - 1875 Person Name: Dr. A. B. Everett Composer of "[Heavenly home! heavenly home! precious name to me]" in Good News Asa Brooks Everett MusDoc USA 1828-1875. Born in VA, he planned to be a doctor, but decided to study music instead. He studied in Boston for four years and also in Leipzig, Germany for four years.. He composed many gospel tunes and edited “The Sceptre” a New York publication. His brothers, Benjamin and Leonard, were also composers. He and Leonard organized a musical instruction system in Richmond, VA, in the 1850s. By 1861, 50 teachers and singing schools were representing them and using their publications. He died in Nashville, TN.
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A. Brooks Everett
Julia S. Haskell
Person Name: Julia W. Sampson Haskell Author of "Heavenly Home" in The Cyber Hymnal [Julia W. Sampson]
Sampson, J. W. Miss Sampson is set forth in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878, as the author of "Weary of wandering long" (Divine Guidance Desired).
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Sampson, J. W., p. 1588, ii. Her hymn "Weary of wandering long" appeared in W. B. Bradbury's Golden Censer, 1864, p. 65 as by "Miss J. W. Sampson, Utica, N.Y." Other hymns with the same signature include "Sweetly sing, sweetly sing," in Bradbury's Golden Chain, 1861, p. 70, and "O, the Sabbath morning, beautiful and bright," in Happy Voice, 1865, No. 101. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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19th Century
Died: After 1901. She was listed as living in her husband’s obituary in the Utica Sunday Journal, July 20, 1902.
Haskell’s maiden name appears in an 1857 teacher’s directory of Utica, New York. She married Charles Freeman Haskell of Utica in 1866. An article in the July 6, 1876, issue of the Utica Daily Observer mentioned a poetry reading by her.
Lyrics
Heavenly Home
Over the Ocean Wave
Pilgrim Halting, Staff in Hand
Sweetly Sing, Sweetly Sing
This Life Is a Battle with Satan and Sin
Weary of Wandering Long
--www.hymntime.com/tch
Julia S. Haskell
G. W. Linton
Composer of "[Heav'nly home! heav'nly home! precious name to me!]" in Kind Words
G. W. Linton
Horace Waters
1812 - 1893 Arranger of "[Heavenly home! heavenly home]" in The Cyber Hymnal
Horace Waters
E. C. Revons
Composer of "[Heavenly home! Heavenly home! blessed place to me!]" in Songs of the Covenant
E. C. Revons
Julia W. Sampson
Person Name: J. W. Sampson Author of "Heavenly Home" in Chapel Melodies [See Julia Sampson Haskell]
Julia W. Sampson
J. P. Ordway
Composer of "[Heavenly home, heavenly home, precious name to me]" in Chapel Melodies
J. P. Ordway
