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Thomas Brigham Bishop was born on 29 June, 1835 in Wayne, Maine, United States, is a best known as an American composer of popular music. Discover Thomas Brigham Bishop's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Occupation Songwriter
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 29 June 1835
Birthday 29 June
Birthplace Wayne, Maine, United States
Date of death 15 May, 1905
Died Place Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality United States

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1835

Thomas Brigham Bishop (June 29, 1835 - May 15, 1905) (usually referred to as T. Brigham Bishop) is best known as an American composer of popular music.

Bishop was born in Wayne, Maine in 1835, and began studying music in Providence, Rhode Island when he was 16.

1850

While Bishop did publish a number of songs beginning in the 1850s, disputes have arisen over his authorship claims as to some of the most famous of those compositions.

In some cases, it is fairly clear that Bishop was not the original author of the works in dispute.

In other cases the facts are not clear.

Bishop has often been attributed with authorship of the popular Civil War marching song "John Brown's Body", though that claim is widely disputed.

The melody of the song was famously also used for The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

According to Bishop, he wrote the melody for the song in 1850, as "Johnny, Fill Up the Bowl," Gilmore wrote new lyrics for it in 1863, and both brought the song to their publisher, who reportedly suggested that the Lambert pseudonym be used on the sheet music.

According to Bishop's account, he wrote "Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me" during the Civil War while assigned to command a company of black soldiers.

One of the soldiers, dismissing some remarks of his fellow soldiers, exclaimed "Shoo fly, don't bother me," which inspired Bishop to write the song.

The company, we are told, generated the line "I belong to Company G".

Yet, the song was reportedly "pirated" from Bishop and he made little money from it.

1851

Thus, the song was attributed to E.P. Christy when it was published (which, at the very least, is true; the original sheet music, dated 1851, attributes authorship to Christy).

If any of this story was true, Bishop would have been only about 16 years old at the time of this event, and it contradicts other sources which make no mention of Bishop.

1858

Bishop's story of the genesis of the song is that it grew out of a conversation with his brother-in-law around 1858, who "took me to task, remarking that my songs were all written for the devil. Then he said 'I am bound to be a soldier in the army of the Lord.' Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!'" This, according to Bishop, inspired him to the melody and lyrics, and he later modified the lyrics after John Brown's death at Harper's Ferry in 1859.

1861

Bishop claimed he first published the song with John Church of Cincinnati in 1861.

The Civil-War tune "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" is usually attributed to composer and bandmaster Patrick Gilmore (though from a melody derived from the older Irish song Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye), but other attributions to Bishop have also been made.

1864

In 1864, he founded a minstrel show in Chattanooga, which lasted until Lincoln's assassination.

1867

In 1867, Bishop married "Sarah A.", who was possibly a former actress.

1869

Bishop did publish a sheet music version of the song in 1869, which includes the caption, "Original Copy and Only Authorized Edition."

Other sources, however, have credited Billy Reeves (lyrics) and Frank Campbell, or Rollin Howard, with the song.

The first group to popularize the song was Bryant's Minstrels in 1869–70.

1880

By the 1880s, Bishop became engaged in the "bucket shop" business—essentially a betting business based on the stock market.

Bishop reportedly became the "leader" of the shady (and eventually illegal) trade in New York City, and also specialized in female customers.

1881

In 1881, Bishop built a 200-room hotel near Silver Springs, Florida.

1886

From 1886 to 1894, they had a house in Dundee Park, New Jersey.

1890

Bishop was arrested in mid-1890 for charges arising out of legal proceedings brought against him for taking $2,000 from a Julie E. Hetsch in 1885, but was able to skip town once bond was posted.

1891

He was again arrested in Jersey City, New Jersey in November 1891 and placed in Ludlow Street Jail, where the New York Times critique of Bishop's financial career was withering: "Bishop has had a long career as a confidence man, bunko steerer, and General Crook. He has made Massachusetts, Ohio, and Florida too hot to hold him."

1894

After fires in 1894/95, he rebuilt on the site as the "Brown House."

Also in Florida, he helped found the Palatka National Bank, which failed after a few years.

1897

MacIntrye reports therein that he first met Bishop in 1897 in New York.

Perhaps the most amazing of the claims in the book is that Bishop had a small part in the writing of one of the Stephen Foster's best known songs, Old Folks at Home ("Swanee River").

Bishop claims that he ran into Foster in a music publishing house, where Foster had already composed the lyrics and basic melody, and whistled it to Bishop, who "put it down" on paper for him, and arranged it for piano by adding basic chords.

Then, according to Bishop, famed blackface performer E.P. Christy walked in, heard the song, and paid Foster $30 for it on the spot.

1901

In 1901, Bishop was embroiled in yet another scheme, this time promoting the "New England Wireless Telephone Company", which was one of a number of companies formed as a supposed competitor to Marconi, which were later exposed as a fraud.

1916

In 1916, Bishop's friend John J. MacIntyre published a short book promoting Bishop's authorship of John Brown's Body and other songs, boldly called The Composer of the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

Writer John J. MacIntyre's 1916 short book, The Composer of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, about Bishop's songs, appears to be written largely based on Bishop's self-reporting to MacIntyre many years after the fact.

1935

MacIntyre also promoted Bishop's authorship claims in 1935, for the 100th anniversary of Bishop's birth, which was featured in an article in Time magazine.

2019

Various disputed claims have been made by Bishop and others that he authored, or at least contributed to the authorship of, a number of popular 19th-century songs, including John Brown's Body, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, and Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me.

Bishop later had an infamous career as a bucket shop proprietor, among other schemes.