He worked for a while as a church organist in Boston, and from 1845 taught music at the New York Institute for the Blind, where he met Fanny Crosby, with whom he would compose fifty to sixty popular secular songs.
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"Christmas on the Sea," also known as "Christmas by the Bay," is an old New England song (c. 1883) with music by George Frederick Root and lyrics by Hezekiah Butterworth.