Julia S. Haskell

[Julia W. Sampson]

Sampson, J. W. Miss Sampson is set forth in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878, as the author of "Weary of wandering long" (Divine Guidance Desired).

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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Sampson, J. W., p. 1588, ii. Her hymn "Weary of wandering long" appeared in W. B. Bradbury's Golden Censer, 1864, p. 65 as by "Miss J. W. Sampson, Utica, N.Y." Other hymns with the same signature include "Sweetly sing, sweetly sing," in Bradbury's Golden Chain, 1861, p. 70, and "O, the Sabbath morning, beautiful and bright," in Happy Voice, 1865, No. 101. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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19th Century

Died: After 1901. She was listed as living in her husband’s obituary in the Utica Sunday Journal, July 20, 1902.

Haskell’s maiden name appears in an 1857 teacher’s directory of Utica, New York. She married Charles Freeman Haskell of Utica in 1866. An article in the July 6, 1876, issue of the Utica Daily Observer mentioned a poetry reading by her.

Lyrics
Heavenly Home
Over the Ocean Wave
Pilgrim Halting, Staff in Hand
Sweetly Sing, Sweetly Sing
This Life Is a Battle with Satan and Sin
Weary of Wandering Long

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