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We Three Kings
 
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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