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[Happy our birthdays when we gladly bring]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. R. Palmer Incipit: 11111 32171 33333

Author: E. E. Hewitt Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Happy our birthdays when we gladly bring Refrain First Line: Singing His tender love Used With Tune: [Happy our birthdays when we gladly bring]

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Our Birthday Song

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Special Songs and Services #68 (1893) First Line: Happy our birthdays when we gladly bring Refrain First Line: Singing His tender love Languages: English Tune Title: [Happy our birthdays when we gladly bring]

Our Birthday Song

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Garnered Gems #124 (1892) First Line: Happy our birthdays, when we gladly bring Refrain First Line: Singing His tender love Languages: English Tune Title: [Happy our birthdays, when we gladly bring]

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E. E. Hewitt

1851 - 1920 Author of "Our Birthday Song" in Special Songs and Services Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds. Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

H. R. Palmer

1834 - 1907 Composer of "[Happy our birthdays when we gladly bring]" in Special Songs and Services Palmer, Horatio Richmond, MUS. DOC, was born April 26, 1834. He is the author of several works on the theory of music; and the editor of some musical editions of hymnbooks. To the latter he contributed numerous tunes, some of which have attained to great popularity, and 5 of which are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, London, 1881. His publications include Songs of Love for the Bible School; and Book of Anthems, the combined sale of which has exceeded one million copies. As a hymnwriter he is known by his "Yield not to temptation," which was written in 1868, and published in the National Sunday School Teachers' Magazine, from which it passed, with music by the author, into his Songs of Love, &c, 1874, and other collections. In America its use is extensive. Dr. Palmer's degree was conferred by the University of Chicago in 1880. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) =============== Palmer, H. R., p. 877, i. The hymn "Would you gain the best in life" (Steadfastness), in the Congregational Sunday School Supplement, 1891, the Council School Hymn Book, 1905, and others, is by this author. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)