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I. B. Woodbury
1819 - 1858 Person Name: Isaac B. Woodbury Adapter of "CREATION" in A New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools Woodbury, Isaac Baker. (Beverly, Massachusetts, October 23, 1819--October 26, 1858, Columbia, South Carolina). Music editor. As a boy, he studied music in nearby Boston, then spent his nineteenth year in further study in London and Paris.
He taught for six years in Boston, traveling throughout New England with the Bay State Glee Club. He later lived at Bellow Falls, Vermont, where he organized the New Hampshire and Vermont Musical Association. In 1849 he settled in New York City where he directed the music at the Rutgers Street Church until ill-health caused him to resign in 1851. He became editor of the New York Musical Review and made another trip to Europe in 1852 to collect material for the magazine. in the fall of 1858 his health broke down from overwork and he went south hoping to regain his strength, but died three days after reaching Columbia, South Carolina.
He published a number of tune-books, of which the Dulcimer, of New York Collection of Sacred Music, went through a number of editions. His Elements of Musical Composition, 1844, was later issued as the Self-instructor in Musical Composition. He also assisted in the compilation of the Methodist Hymn Book of 1857.
--Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives
I. B. Woodbury
Theodore C. Pease
1853 - 1893 Author of "The star of day is in the skies" in The Morning Hour Pease, Theodora Claudius, born at Poughkeepsie, K.Y., 1853; educated at Harvard, and Andover Theo. Seminary, graduating in 1880; ordained to the Congregational ministry 1884; Bartlett Prof, of Sacred Rhetoric and Lecturer on Pastoral Theology 1893,and died the same year. A small memorial vol. containing an essay on the Christian Ministry, Lectures on Homiletics, &c, with Poems and Hymns, was published by Houghton & Mifflin 1894. Of his hymns the following were included in The Pilgrim Hymnal, N.Y., 1904:—
1. Dear Lord, Who once upon the lake. [Peace.] 1890.
2. How blest Thy first disciples, Lord. [Holy Communion.] 1890.
3. Jesus is risen! lift up your glad voices. [Easter.] 1891.
4. Not long on Hermon's holy height. [Visions and Duty.] 1891.
5. O Lord of life, once laid in Joseph's tomb. [Easter.] 1893.
These dates are those of the writing of the hymns. [M. C. Hazard, Ph. D.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Theodore C. Pease
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