James Calvin Bushey

Life

Born: 1847

Died: 1929

Biography

James Calvin Bushey was born in Arendtsville, Pennsylvania (near Gettysburg). He taught in a singing school at Prairie, Ohio, before moving west. He taught in Mason City, Iowa, was professor of music at Ellsworth College, and taught in Gilman, Illinois, and Peoria, Illinois. He died in Peoria. He compiled and contributed to several collections of sacred and secular music for use in churches, Sunday schools, singing schools, and musical conventions.

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List of choral works

• Come and Go A-Maying
• Home By the Sea

 

Settings of text by James Calvin Bushey

• Whippoorwill (Sanford S. Turley)

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Publications

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