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[Happy New Year! Happy New Year]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Isaac H. Meredith Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 32153 21556 35117 Used With Text: Happy New Year!

Author: Eliza E. Hewitt Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Happy New Year! Happy New Year! Refrain First Line: Happy New Year! Happy New Year! Used With Tune: [Happy New Year! Happy New Year] Text Sources: Sunday School Hymns No. 1 (New York: Tullar-Meredith Company, 1903)

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Happy New Year

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Sunday School Hymns No. 1 #296 (1903) First Line: Happy New Year! Happy New Year! Refrain First Line: Happy New Year! Happy New Year! Topics: New Year Languages: English Tune Title: [Happy New Year! Happy New Year!]

Happy New Year!

Author: Eliza E. Hewitt Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #10228 First Line: Happy New Year! Happy New Year! Refrain First Line: Happy New Year! Happy New Year! Languages: English Tune Title: [Happy New Year! Happy New Year]

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E. E. Hewitt

1851 - 1920 Person Name: Eliza E. Hewitt Author of "Happy New Year!" in The Cyber Hymnal 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)

I. H. Meredith

1872 - 1962 Person Name: Isaac H. Meredith Composer of "[Happy New Year! Happy New Year]" in The Cyber Hymnal Pseudonyms Charles C. Ackley (taken from his wife’s name, Clarissa Ackley Cowan) Broughton Edwards Floyd Engle (from his address on Floyd Street in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey) Arthur Grantley Bruce Kennedy See also Ackley, Chas. C. 1872-1962 See also Edwards, Broughton