James Austin Butterfield

James Austin Butterfield (May 18, 1837 – July 6, 1891) was an American composer. His best-known composition is When You and I Were Young, Maggie, first published in 1866 (lyrics by George W. Johnson). Butterfield was born in England in 1837 and emigrated to the United States in 1856.[1][2][3]

James Austin Butterfield
Birth nameJames Austin Butterfield
Also known asJ.A. Butterfield
Born(1897-05-02)May 2, 1897
OriginBrooklyn, New York, U.S.
DiedApril 8, 1985(1985-04-08) (aged 87)
New York City, U.S.
GenresTin Pan Alley
Occupation(s)Composer
InstrumentsPiano
Associated actsHaven Gillespie
Sheet music cover for When You and I Were Young, Maggie (Oliver Ditson & Co. version of cover)

He was also the second president of the Music Teachers National Association, in 1878.[4]

James A. Butterfield died in Chicago, Illinois and is buried in Graceland Cemetery.[5]

References
  1. Fuld, James J. The book of world-famous music: classical, popular, and folk, p. 643 (Dover, 5th ed., Revised, 2000)
  2. Matthews, W.S.B. (assoc ed.) A hundred years of music in America, p.647-50 (1889, 1900 ed.)
  3. Studwell, William Emmett. They also wrote: evaluative essays on lesser-known popular American songwriters prior to the rock era, p. 206 (2000)
  4. Volume of proceedings of the Music Teachers' National Association, p. 260 (1911)
  5. "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1922," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N7NT-QTP : accessed 27 May 2012), James Austin Butterfield, 1891.


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