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Beautiful Land

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 2 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: Beautiful, beautiful land Refrain First Line: Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful land

[Beautiful, beautiful land!]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Jno. R. Sweney Hymnal Title: Finest of the Wheat Male Chorus Incipit: 35435 43543 21254 Used With Text: Beautiful Land

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Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Finest of the Wheat Male Chorus #20 (1896) Hymnal Title: Finest of the Wheat Male Chorus First Line: Beautiful, beautiful land! Refrain First Line: Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful land Languages: English Tune Title: [Beautiful, beautiful land!]

Beautiful, beautiful land

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: The Garner #d9 (1878) Hymnal Title: The Garner

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal Title: Finest of the Wheat Male Chorus Author of "Beautiful Land" in Finest of the Wheat Male Chorus Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke ============ Hoffman, Elisha Albright, author of "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?" (Holiness desired), in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1881, was born in Pennsylvania, May 7, 1839. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ==============

John R. Sweney

1837 - 1899 Person Name: Jno. R. Sweney Hymnal Title: Finest of the Wheat Male Chorus Composer of "[Beautiful, beautiful land!]" in Finest of the Wheat Male Chorus John R. Sweney (1837-1899) was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and exhibited musical abilities at an early age. At nineteen he was studying with a German music teacher, leading a choir and glee club, and performing at children’s entertainments. By twenty-two he was teaching at a school in Dover, Delaware. Soon thereafter, he was put in charge of the band of the Third Delaware Regiment of the Union Army for the duration of the Civil War. After the war, he became Professor of Music at the Pennsylvania Military Academy, and director of Sweney’s Cornet Band. He eventually earned Bachelor and Doctor of Music degrees at the Academy. Sweney began composing church music in 1871 and became well-known as a leader of large congregations. His appreciators stated “Sweney knows how to make a congregation sing” and “He had great power in arousing multitudes.” He also became director of music for a large Sunday school at the Bethany Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia of which John Wanamaker was superintendent (Wanamaker was the founder of the first major department store in Philadelphia). In addition to his prolific output of hymn melodies and other compositions, Sweney edited or co-edited about sixty song collections, many in collaboration with William J. Kirkpatrick. Sweney died on April 10, 1899, and his memorial was widely attended and included a eulogy by Wanamaker. Joe Hickerson from "Joe's Jottings #9" used by permission