James Austin Butterfield
Birth name James Austin Butterfield Also known as J.A. Butterfield Born (1897-05-02 ) May 2, 1897Origin Brooklyn , New York , U.S.Died April 8, 1985(1985-04-08) (aged 87)New York City , U.S. Genres Tin Pan Alley Occupation Composer Instrument Piano
Musical artist
Sheet music cover for When You and I Were Young, Maggie (Oliver Ditson & Co. version of cover)
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]
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]
^ Fuld, James J. The book of world-famous music: classical, popular, and folk , p. 643 (Dover, 5th ed., Revised, 2000)
^ Matthews, W.S.B. (assoc ed.) A hundred years of music in America , p.647-50 (1889, 1900 ed.)
^ Studwell, William Emmett. They also wrote: evaluative essays on lesser-known popular American songwriters prior to the rock era , p. 206 (2000)
^ Volume of proceedings of the Music Teachers' National Association , p. 260 (1911)
^ "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.