Now to the Lord on high

Author: B. R. Hanby

Benjamin R. Hanby Born: Ju­ly 22, 1833, Rush­ville, Ohio. Died: March 16, 1867, Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois. Buried: Ot­ter­bein Cem­e­te­ry, West­er­ville, Ohio. Son of a Unit­ed Breth­ren min­is­ter, Han­by at­tend­ed Ot­ter­bein Un­i­ver­si­ty in Wes­ter­ville, Ohio. Up­on grad­u­a­tion, he worked for the col­lege, then served as prin­ci­pal of an acad­e­my in Sev­en Mile, Ohio. He lat­er pastored in Lew­is­burg and New Par­is, then went on to work for mu­sic pub­lish­ers John Church Com­pa­ny (Cin­cin­nati, Ohio) and Root and Ca­dy (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois). He wrote over five doz­en songs, ma­ny of which ap­peared in the quar­ter­ly Our Song Birds. One of Han­by’s best know… Go to person page >