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American gospel songwriter

This article is about the American gospel song writer. For the botanist George Ledyard Stebbins, see G.

Ledyard Stebbins.

George Coles Stebbins (1846–1945) was a gospel song writer.

Stebbins was born February 26, 1846, in Orleans County, New York, where he spent the first 23 years of his life on a farm.

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In 1869 he moved to Chicago, Illinois, which marked the beginning of his musical career.

Background

Stebbins became the musical director of Chicago's First Baptist Church in 1870, a position he held till the autumn of 1874, when he resigned to take up residence in Boston.

During his residence in Chicago he became acquainted with Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey and also with Philip Paul Bliss and Major D. W. Whittle, both of whom early joined