Love Each Other

Author: J. F. Disney

Born: Sep­tem­ber 27, 1852, Knox Coun­ty, Ohio. Died: March 13, 1885, Ab­er­deen, Mis­sis­sip­pi. Buried: Dis­ney Cem­e­te­ry, Five Cor­ners, Ohio. Son of Fred­er­ick and Har­ri­et Bar­ry Dis­ney, and bro­ther to Hen­ry Dis­ney, Ja­cob was ed­u­cat­ed in the lo­cal dis­trict school. He later at­tend­ed the nor­mal school un­der Pro­fes­sor John Og­den, in Worth­ing, Ohio, for al­most a year. In the sum­mer of 1879 he went to the Mu­sic­al Nor­mal school in Youngs­town, Ohio, un­der Pro­fes­sor N. Coe Stew­art, of Cleve­land, Ohio. He stu­died mu­sic for some years, and com­posed Wil­lie’s Fare­well, pub­lished in 1877, mak­ing him the first re­si­dent of Knox Coun­ty, Ohio, to… Go to person page >