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<title>BLB Hymns</title>
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<h2>Samuel Augustus Ward</h2>
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<h2>1847-1903</h2>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<p><em>Born:</em> December 28, 1847, Newark, New Jersey.</p>
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<p><em>Died:</em> September 28, 1903, Newark, New Jersey.</p>
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<p class="just">Ward studied music under Jan Pychowski and others in New York City, and founded a music store in Newark. He became organist at Grace Episcopal Church, Newark, in 1880, succeeding <a href = "./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_c_u_cutler_hs.html" >Henry Cutler</a>; a brass plaque in his memory was placed on the parish house there in 1934. Ward also founded Newark’s Orpheus Club in 1889. In the secular world, he is best remembered for his tune “Materna,” used for the anthem <em>America the
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Beautiful</em>.</p>
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<p><em>Music:</em></p>
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<li><a href = "./hymns/hymns_html/htm_g_i_gisourrs.html" >Materna</a></li>
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