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Benjamin Hanby

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Profession
Composer
Died
Mar 16, 1867
Zodiac
Cancer
Born in
Ohio
About
Perhaps most famous for his Christmas songs "Jolly Old Saint Nicholas" and "Up On the House Top," this nineteenth-century composer also wrote a hymn titled "Who Is He In Yonder Stall?" In addition, he composed a popular song, "Darling Nelly Gray," that tells the story of a slave who has been separated from his love.
Family
He and his father, Bishop William Hanby, both helped slaves escape to freedom via the Underground Railroad.

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