He wrote "Lorena" with Henry DeLafayette Webster (relative?) and "In the Sweet By and By" with Sanford Bennett. "I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets" was based on a poem by Maud Irving. It was Joseph Webster who wrote the tunes and harmonies.
Joseph Philbrick Webster was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1819, and had an early interest in music and taught himself to play several instruments. At 15, he attended a 13-night singing school where he learned to read music and then attended Pembroke Academy studying music and military drills.
He graduated from there in 1840 and then studied music at the Boston Academy of Music.
Afterwards, he toured all over the eastern United States as a concert singer, but bronchitis ended that. He then turned his attention to writing music and over the course of his life wrote over 1,000 songs.
In 1850, he and his wife, Joanna, left Connecticut, looking for relief from his affliction and traveled south before settling in Madison, Indiana, on the Ohio River and operating an agency for Lighte and Bradbury who sold musical instruments. This is one interesting city to visit, but back then, it was the hub of trade and culture with many of the biggest names performing there.
Webster's Agency occupied a two-story building where he sold pianos and musical instruments on the first floor and had "Webster Hall" on the second where concerts were held. In addition to selling instruments, Webster made money as a music teacher, composer and tuner and traveled much into Kentucky.
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