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WORK, Henry Clay, song-writer, born in Middletown, Connecticut, 1 October, 1832; died in Hartford, Connecticut, 8 June, 1884. He was the son of Alanson Work, who was sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment in 1841 in Missouri for assisting fugitive slaves to escape. While young the son removed with his father to Illinois, where he received a common-school education. He returned to Connecticut, was apprenticed to a printer, and employed his leisure in studying harmony. His first success was achieved during the civil war, when he sprang into favor by his war-songs, among which were "Kingdom Coming," "Marching through Georgia," and "Babylon is Fallen." His songs number nearly one hundred, and include "Nicodemus the Slave, "Lily Dale," and My Grandfather's Clock." He went to Europe in 1865, and on his return invested the fortune that his songs had brought him in a fruit-raising enterprise in Vine-land, New Jersey, which was a failure. In 1875 he became connected as composer with Root and Cady, the music-publishers, who had published Work's songs until the plates were destroyed by the Chicago fire of 1871. Mr. Work was also an inventor, and patented a knitting-machine, a walking doll, and a, rotary engine.
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