John Menzies Macfarlane
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Life
Macfarlane was born in Stirling, Scotland. He came to Utah Territory in the early 1850s and settled in Cedar City in 1853.[3] In 1852, Macfarlane married Ann Chatterley. Multiple sources identified him as one of the many Iron County Militia men involved in the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre.[4]
Macfarlane served as superintendent of schools from 1866 to 1868 for Iron County, Utah,[3] and the leader of the choir in Cedar City which he took to St. George. Erastus Snow urged Macfarlane to move to St. George and start a choir there, which he did.
Besides leading the choir, Macfarlane served as a district judge and worked as a surveyor and a builder. In St. George, he was involved in founding an academy in 1888 that was the predecessor to Dixie State College of Utah.[5]
Among Macfarlane's hymns are "Far, Far Away on Judea's Plains" and the music to "Dearest Children, God is Near You".
Notes
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References
- Cornwall, J. Spencer Stories of Our Mormon Hymns (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1975) pp. 40–41
Further reading
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External links
- Free scores by John Menzies Macfarlane in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
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- 1833 births
- 1892 deaths
- Utah Tech University people
- Scottish Latter Day Saint hymnwriters
- Mormon pioneers
- People from Cedar City, Utah
- People from St. George, Utah
- People from Stirling
- Scottish Latter Day Saint writers
- Scottish emigrants to the United States
- American Latter Day Saint hymnwriters