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Author: Mrs. Adaline H. Beery Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: We're a band of happy children Refrain First Line: Come and join our glad hosannas Used With Tune: [We're a band of happy children]

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[We're a band of happy children]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: T. Martin Towne Incipit: 34517 12666 56543 Used With Text: We're Children of a King

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We're Children of a King

Author: Mrs. Adaline H. Beery Hymnal: Gospel Chimes #6 (1889) First Line: We're a band of happy children Refrain First Line: Come and join our glad hosannas Languages: English Tune Title: [We're a band of happy children]

We're Children of a King

Author: Mrs. Adaline H. Beery Hymnal: Christian Life Songs #16 (1890) First Line: We're a band of happy children Refrain First Line: Come and join our glad hosannas Languages: English Tune Title: [We're a band of happy children]

We're Children of a King

Author: Mrs. Adaline H. Beery Hymnal: Bright Light #54 (1893) First Line: We're a band of happy children Refrain First Line: Come and join our glad hosannas Languages: English Tune Title: [We're a band of happy children]

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Adaline Hohf Beery

1859 - 1929 Person Name: Mrs. Adaline H. Beery Author of "We're Children of a King" in Bright Light Adaline H. Beery was born on December 20, 1859 in Hanover, Pennsylvania. Adaline’s family moved to Iowa when she was 10 years old. She attended Mount Morris College Academy, Mount Morris, Illinois and for while taught in Iowa public schools. Adaline wrote hundreds of poems, many of which appeared in Brethren periodicals and in the 1897 Poems of a Decade. She died on February 24, 1929, Kane, Illinois. NN, Hymnary editor. Source: Cyber Hymnal

T. Martin Towne

1835 - 1912 Composer of "[We're a band of happy children]" in Bright Light Towne, T. Martin. (Coleraine, Franklin County, Massachusetts, May 31 [sic], 1835-- ). Methodist. Attended Williston's Seminary, East Hampton, Mass. 1855 to Hudson, New York, then Albany. Taught in Ypsilanti, Michigan, then Detroit. Settled in Janesville, Wisconsin. Served in the Civil War. Settled in Chicago; married Belle Kellogg. Keith C. Clark, DNAH Archives