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[O, do not be discouraged]
Appears in 7 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. B. Bradbury Incipit: 51111 17122 22212 Used With Text: The Sunday-School Army
[O, do not be discouraged]
The Sunday-School Army
Appears in 106 hymnals First Line: O, do not be discouraged Refrain First Line: I am glad I'm in this army Used With Tune: [O, do not be discouraged]
The Sunday-School Army
Laßt uns stets die Gnade preisen
Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Ein wahrer Christ ist selig Used With Tune: [Ein wahrer Christ ist selig]
Laßt uns stets die Gnade preisen
The Sunday School Army
Hymnal: Popular Hymns Number 3 #220 (1910) First Line: O, do not be discouraged Refrain First Line: I am glad I'm in this army Languages: English Tune Title: [O, do not be discouraged]
The Sunday School Army
The Sunday-School Army
Hymnal: The Standard Sunday School Hymnal #271 (1888) First Line: O, do not be discouraged Refrain First Line: I am glad I'm in this army Languages: English Tune Title: [O, do not be discouraged]
The Sunday-School Army
O, Do Not Be Discouraged
Author: Rev. John A. Granade, 1770-1806 Hymnal: The Alleluia #66 (1880) Refrain First Line: I am glad I'm in this army Languages: English Tune Title: [O, do not be discouraged]
O, Do Not Be Discouraged
William B. Bradbury
1816 - 1868 Person Name: W. B. Bradbury Composer of "[O, do not be discouraged]" in The Standard Sunday School Hymnal William Bachelder Bradbury USA 1816-1868. Born at York, ME, he was raised on his father's farm, with rainy days spent in a shoe-shop, the custom in those days. He loved music and spent spare hours practicing any music he could find. In 1830 the family moved to Boston, where he first saw and heard an organ and piano, and other instruments. He became an organist at 15. He attended Dr. Lowell Mason's singing classes, and later sang in the Bowdoin Street church choir. Dr. Mason became a good friend. He made $100/yr playing the organ, and was still in Dr. Mason's choir. Dr. Mason gave him a chance to teach singing in Machias, ME, which he accepted. He returned to Boston the following year to marry Adra Esther Fessenden in 1838, then relocated to Saint John, New Brunswick. Where his efforts were not much appreciated, so he returned to Boston. He was offered charge of music and organ at the First Baptist Church of Brooklyn. That led to similar work at the Baptist Tabernacle, New York City, where he also started a singing class. That started singing schools in various parts of the city, and eventually resulted in music festivals, held at the Broadway Tabernacle, a prominent city event. He conducted a 1000 children choir there, which resulted in music being taught as regular study in public schools of the city. He began writing music and publishing it. In 1847 he went with his wife to Europe to study with some of the music masters in London and also Germany. He attended Mendelssohn funeral while there. He went to Switzerland before returning to the states, and upon returning, commenced teaching, conducting conventions, composing, and editing music books. In 1851, with his brother, Edward, he began manufacturring Bradbury pianos, which became popular. Also, he had a small office in one of his warehouses in New York and often went there to spend time in private devotions. As a professor, he edited 59 books of sacred and secular music, much of which he wrote. He attended the Presbyterian church in Bloomfield, NJ, for many years later in life. He contracted tuberculosis the last two years of his life.
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William B. Bradbury
Hubert P. Main
1839 - 1925 Arranger of "[Oh, do not be discouraged]" in Select Songs for the Singing Service Hubert Platt Main DD USA 1839-1925. Born at Ridgefield, CT, he attended singing school as a teenager. In 1854 he went to New York City and worked as an errand boy in a wallpaper house. The next year he became an errand boy in the Bristow & Morse Piano Company. He was an organist, choir leader, and compiled books of music. He also helped his father edit the “Lute Songbook” by Isaac Woodbury. In 1866 he married Olphelia Louise Degraff, and they had two sons: Lucius, and Hubert. In 1867 he filled a position at William B Bradbury’s publishing house. After Bradbury’s death in 1868 the Bigelow & Main Publishers were formed as its successor. He also worked with his father until his father’s death in 1873. Contributors to their efforts were Fanny Crosby, Ira Sankey, Wilbur Crafts, and others. In addition to publishing, Main wrote 1000+ pieces of music, including part song, singing school songs, Sunday school music, hymns, anthems, etc. He also arranged music and collected music books. He 1891 he sold his collection of over 3500 volumes to the Newberry Library in Chicago, IL, where they were known as the Main Library. Some of his major publications include: “Book of Praise for the Sunday school” (1875), “Little pilgrim songs” (1884), “Hymns of Praise” (`1884), “Gems of song for the Sunday school” (1901), “Quartettes for men’s voices: Sacred & social selections” (1913). In 1922 Hope Publishing Company acquired Bigelow & Main. He was an editor, author, compiler, and composer, as well as publisher. He died in Newark, NJ.
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Hubert P. Main
John A. Granade
1763 - 1807 Person Name: Rev. John A. Granade, (1770-1806) Author of "O do not be Discouraged" in Select Songs for the Singing Service Born: 1770, New Bern County, North Carolina.
Died: December 6, 1807, Sumner County, Tennessee.
After a period of desperate depression, Granade came to Christ in 1800 at a Presbyterian camp meeting at Desha’s Creek, Sumner County, Tennessee. Ordained a Methodist circuit riding preacher, Granade was referred to by the Nashville Banner as the "wild man of Goose Creek" (Sumner County, Tennessee) and was also variously known as "the poet of the backwoods" and "the Wild Man of Holston." Granade worked in part in the world of shape-note singing in the Shenandoah Valley, where a variety of musical sources, both sacred and profane, were at play. His works include:
Pilgrim’s Songster (Lexington, Kentucky: 1804)
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
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Granade, John Adam (ca. 1763--1807, Wilson County, Tennessee). A Methodist circuit rider, admitted at a session of the Western Conference, 1 October 1801 at Ebenezer, Tenn. For three years he rode the Green, Holston, and Hinckstone circuits. He then settled in southwest Tennessee as a physician-farmer.
He had a number of campmeeting hymns in Thomas Hinde's Pilgrim Songster (Cincinnati, 1810) whose preface states: " . . . our two western bards Mr. John A. Granade and Caleb J. Taylor, composed their songs during the great revivals of religion in the states of Kentucky and Tennessee about 1802-1804."
--Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives
John A. Granade
