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The mission of the KelticDead Music initiative is to find tunes and songs from around

the world that have Celtic, Folk, World, Americana, and Seafaring origins, and arrange them

into simple sheet music formats for folk musicians to use, as well as provide links for the

music that follows the arrangements to help in hearing how it can be played. In addition,

other links are provided for the stories and possible lyrics about the selections within video-

based, KDM Broadsides for a music-education experience.

All the selections and sheet music content provided in the KelticDead Music initiative are

from traditional, made-public, made-public with credits, or cited credits where applicable. This

material content is given with permissions. Patrick O. Young, KelticDead Music.

We Three Kings

John H. (John Henry) Hopkins,

Junior (1820-1891), was born in

Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and one of

twelve siblings from his father who

came from Dublin, Ireland and his

mother from Hamburg, Germany.

John’s father had been an ironmaster,

a school teacher, a lawyer, a priest,

and the second Episcopal Bishop of

Vermont in the 1830s, (John senior

became the presiding bishop in 1865).

When John’s father established the

Vermont Episcopal Institute, he

needed an assistant to help run it, and

he picked his son, John junior, who

was as hard-working as his father, and

he began teaching Sunday school part

time for the children at the Institute.

John junior graduated from the University of Vermont in 1839, and he

returned to help his father at the Institute school, but when a financial

crisis hit, the school had to close down, and John junior sought work

elsewhere. For a time, he worked as a reporter in New York City while

studying law, but he developed a throat ailment and had to move south to

a warmer climate. While recuperating from 1842 to 1844 he tutored

children of the Episcopal Bishop Elliott in Savannah, Georgia. In 1845 he

returned to Vermont to take his M.A, and he graduated from the General

Theological Seminary in 1850.

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