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[Wherefore art thou wrapt in slumber]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wm. J. Kirkpatrick Incipit: 33332 34322 22343 Used With Text: Drifting

Author: E. E. Hewitt Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Wherefore art thou wrapt in slumber Refrain First Line: Drifting, drifting, drifting, drifting Used With Tune: [Wherefore art thou wrapt in slumber]

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Drifting

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Towner's Male Choir Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 Combined #60 (1894) First Line: Wherefore art thou wrapt in slumber? Refrain First Line: Drifting, drifting, drifting, drifting Languages: English Tune Title: [Wherefore art thou wrapt in slumber?]

Drifting

Author: E. E. Hewitt Hymnal: Finest of the Wheat Male Chorus #83 (1896) First Line: Wherefore art thou wrapt in slumber Refrain First Line: Drifting, drifting, drifting, drifting Languages: English Tune Title: [Wherefore art thou wrapt in slumber]

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William J. Kirkpatrick

1838 - 1921 Person Name: Wm. J. Kirkpatrick Composer of "[Wherefore art thou wrapt in slumber]" in Finest of the Wheat Male Chorus William J. Kirkpatrick (b. Duncannon, PA, 1838; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1921) received his musical training from his father and several other private teachers. A carpenter by trade, he engaged in the furniture business from 1862 to 1878. He left that profession to dedicate his life to music, serving as music director at Grace Methodist Church in Philadelphia. Kirkpatrick compiled some one hundred gospel song collections; his first, Devotional Melodies (1859), was published when he was only twenty-one years old. Many of these collections were first published by the John Hood Company and later by Kirkpatrick's own Praise Publishing Company, both in Philadelphia. Bert Polman

E. E. Hewitt

1851 - 1920 Author of "Drifting" in Finest of the Wheat Male Chorus 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)