Julia Harriet Johnston, who was born on Jan. 21, 1849, at Salineville, OH, in Columbiana County. Her father was a minister and he mother was a poet. She began writing when she was nine years old but really started writing verse in high school. She lived in Peoria, Ill.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >
Display Title: SpringFirst Line: The waking flow'rs, the singing birdsTune Title: [The waking flow'rs, the singing birds]Author: Julia H. JohnstonDate: 1899
Display Title: SpringFirst Line: The waking flow’rs, the singing birdsTune Title: CYRUSAuthor: Julia H. JohnstonMeter: CMDSource: Bible Study Songs, by Bertha F. Vella and Daniel. B. Towner (Boston: The Pilgrim Press, 1899)