American musician, born in Sheffield, MA, on the 30th of August 1820. He studied music in Boston, and later in New York, where he taught till 1850, when he went to Paris for a year; in 1859 became a member of the firm of Root and Cody, in Chicago; was the originator of normal musical institutes, and author of many of our most popular songs, of which his first was Hazel Dell, followed by Rosalie, the Prairie Flower; Battle Cry of Freedom; A Hundred Years Ago; There’s Music in the Air; The Old Canoe; Just Before the Battle, Mother; Tramp, Tramp, Tramp; and a very large number of other songs and pieces of music. He died at Bailey’s Island, ME, on the 6th of August 1895.
