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Mrs. S. K. Bourne
1843 - 1908 Author of "Merry Christmas Bells Are Ringing" in Gloria Deo Susan Ketchum Bourne was the widow of the Rev. Shearjashub Bourne. She was largely identified with church and missionary work in the Congregational church of Manhattan, and was an active and charter member of Sorosis. She was perhaps best known to old New Yorkers as the chief founder and President of the Lydia F. Wadleigh Association.
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Mrs. S. K. Bourne
Albert J. Holden
1841 - 1916 Composer of "[Merry Christmas bells are ringing]" in Gloria Deo A Founder of the American Guild of Organists and composer and editor of numerous pieces and collections of sacred music (of which perhaps Songs of Faith, Hope and Love, 1883, is best known), Albert Junos Holden was born in Boston on August 17, 1841. He studied in New York City, and served there as organist of the Church of the Divine Paternity (Universalist) and of the Church of the Puritans (Presbyterian). His sacred solo "In Heavenly Love Abiding" was recorded by the "Metropolitan Quartet" on an Edison Blue Amberol cylinder, No. 3813, in 1919. He died in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, on July 16, 1916.
(source: AGO Founders Hymnal, p. 98)
Albert J. Holden
Frank N. Shepperd
Composer of "[Merry Christmas bells are ringing]" in The Church and Home Hymnal
Frank N. Shepperd
