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Personnel. Sons of the San Joaquin. Jack Hannah; Joe Hannah; Lon Hannah; Additional personnel. Rich O'Brien - acoustic lead and rhythm guitars; Randy Elmore - rhythm guitar and fiddle
Dr. Brewster Martin Higley VI (November 30, 1823 - December 9, 1911) was an American poet and otolaryngologist who wrote the lyrics to the famous American folk song, "Home on the Range."[1] Born in Rutland, Ohio, the grandson of Rutland's founder Brewster Higley IV,[2] Higley VI began studying medicine at La Porte Medical College in La Porte, Indiana at the age of 18. After graduating in 1849 ...
Feb 19, 2012 · On this site circa 1873 Dr. Brewster M. Higley wrote the words to "Home on the Range" Adopted as official State Song of Kansas June 30, 1947 —————— In 1873 Dr. Brewster Higley wrote the words, Dan Kelley supplied the music, and the Harlan Brothers Orchestra started the new song "Home on the Range" on its way from the heart of the nation into the nation's heart.
Poet and doctor. Born: 1823. Died: 1909. Brewster Higley moved from Ohio to Kansas after his first three wives died and the fourth marriage appeared to be headed for divorce. He homesteaded in Smith County in 1871. In 1873 he wrote a poem titled "My Western Home," which had six verses and a chorus.
In his 1935 report on his research, Moanfeldt quotes from the statement of a former patient of Dr. Brewster M. Higley, a Mr. Reese, who said that his doctor had shown him an unpublished poem called "My Home in the West" in Kansas in 1873 and had expressed a wish that it be set to music, that a Dan Kelly had then composed the tune, and that it ...
This song started its life as a poem written by Dr. Brewster Higley in Smith County, Kansas in the early 1870s. Higley originally called it "My Western Home". The poem was published in 1873 in the "Smith County Pioneer" as "Oh Give Me a Home Where the Buffalo Roam". A patient of Dr. Higley's persuaded him to have the words put to music ...
Brief Life History of Brewster Martin. When Dr. Brewster Martin Higley VI was born on 30 November 1822, in Rutland Township, Meigs, Ohio, United States, his father, Brewster Higley V, was 38 and his mother, Achsah Evarts, was 34. He married Maria B. Winchell on 25 October 1849, in LaPorte, Indiana, United States.
