James Ramsey Murray
James Ramsey Murray (1841 - 1905)

The probable composer of the hymn tune MUELLER ("Away in a Manger") was James Ramsey Murray. Born in 1841, he studied at the Musical Institute in North Reading, Massachusetts. He studied with Lowell Mason, George Root, William Bradbury and George Webb. He enlisted in the Civil War as an Army musician, composing his first song "Daisy Deane" while in a Virginia camp in 1863.

After the war he joined the Root and Cady publishing house in Chicago, Illinois, as editor of The Song Messenger. He rema ... (Read all)
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