[O I love to think of Jesus] (Root)

[O I love to think of Jesus] (Root)

Composer: George F. Root
Published in 7 hymnals


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Composer: George F. Root

Root, George F., MUS. DOC, born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., Aug. 30, 1820. He is much more widely known as a composer of popular music than as a hymn writer. Four of his hymns are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878. Nos. 16, 100, 293, and 297. A sympathetic biographical sketch, with portrait, is in The Tonic Sol-Fa Reporter, Sep. 1886. He died Aug. 6, 1895. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >

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Title: [O I love to think of Jesus] (Root)
Composer: George F. Root
Incipit: 54333 33353 21321
Copyright: Public Domain

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Instances

Instances (1 - 7 of 7)
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Calvary Songs #106

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Chapel Gems for Sunday Schools #24

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Chapel Gems for Sunday Schools #24

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Laudes Domini #129

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Loving Voices #140

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Minnetonka Songs #12

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The Little Seraph #116

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