The New York Times - August 18, 1960
James G. MacDermid, Composer, was 82
James G. MacDermid, composer, died on Tuesday in a Brooklyn nursing home at the age of 82. He lived until recently at the Riverside Plaza Hotel, 253 West Seventy-third Street.
His wife, Mrs. Sybil MacDermid, who died in 1941, was well known as a soprano under the name of Sybil Sammis-MacDermid. Mr. MacDermid toured many parts of the nation and abroad as piano accompanist for his wife. He was best known as a composer of scriptural music.
His works included "Ninety-first Psalm," "Arise, Shine, for They Light Is Come," and "In My Father's House Are Many Mansions."
Other were "Behold, What Manner of Love," and "Whiter Shall I Go from Thy Spirit." Mr. MacDermid was a Christian Scientist and he wrote solo settings for seven poems by Mary Baker Eddy, founder of that faith.
He was born in Utica, Ont., and became an American citizen in 1906. He studied piano in London, Ont., and voice in Duluth, Minn., and Chicago. Mr. MacDermid came to New York in 1921 and joined the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 1922.
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Naturalization Record:
Name: James Gardiner McDermid (not MacDermid)
Address: Lexington Hotel - 22 & Michigan
Certificate No: Volume P, Page 26
Title & Location of Court: Circuit Court, Cook County, IL
Country of Birth: Canada
When Born: June 10, 1875
Date & Port of arrival in U.S.: June 18, 1892, Marie Sault St.
Date of Naturalization: January 26, 1907
James G. MacDermid, Composer, was 82
James G. MacDermid, composer, died on Tuesday in a Brooklyn nursing home at the age of 82. He lived until recently at the Riverside Plaza Hotel, 253 West Seventy-third Street.
His wife, Mrs. Sybil MacDermid, who died in 1941, was well known as a soprano under the name of Sybil Sammis-MacDermid. Mr. MacDermid toured many parts of the nation and abroad as piano accompanist for his wife. He was best known as a composer of scriptural music.
His works included "Ninety-first Psalm," "Arise, Shine, for They Light Is Come," and "In My Father's House Are Many Mansions."
Other were "Behold, What Manner of Love," and "Whiter Shall I Go from Thy Spirit." Mr. MacDermid was a Christian Scientist and he wrote solo settings for seven poems by Mary Baker Eddy, founder of that faith.
He was born in Utica, Ont., and became an American citizen in 1906. He studied piano in London, Ont., and voice in Duluth, Minn., and Chicago. Mr. MacDermid came to New York in 1921 and joined the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 1922.
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Naturalization Record:
Name: James Gardiner McDermid (not MacDermid)
Address: Lexington Hotel - 22 & Michigan
Certificate No: Volume P, Page 26
Title & Location of Court: Circuit Court, Cook County, IL
Country of Birth: Canada
When Born: June 10, 1875
Date & Port of arrival in U.S.: June 18, 1892, Marie Sault St.
Date of Naturalization: January 26, 1907
The New York Times - August 18, 1960
James G. MacDermid, Composer, was 82
James G. MacDermid, composer, died on Tuesday in a Brooklyn nursing home at the age of 82. He lived until recently at the Riverside Plaza Hotel, 253 West Seventy-third Street.
His wife, Mrs. Sybil MacDermid, who died in 1941, was well known as a soprano under the name of Sybil Sammis-MacDermid. Mr. MacDermid toured many parts of the nation and abroad as piano accompanist for his wife. He was best known as a composer of scriptural music.
His works included "Ninety-first Psalm," "Arise, Shine, for They Light Is Come," and "In My Father's House Are Many Mansions."
Other were "Behold, What Manner of Love," and "Whiter Shall I Go from Thy Spirit." Mr. MacDermid was a Christian Scientist and he wrote solo settings for seven poems by Mary Baker Eddy, founder of that faith.
He was born in Utica, Ont., and became an American citizen in 1906. He studied piano in London, Ont., and voice in Duluth, Minn., and Chicago. Mr. MacDermid came to New York in 1921 and joined the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 1922.
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Naturalization Record:
Name: James Gardiner McDermid (not MacDermid)
Address: Lexington Hotel - 22 & Michigan
Certificate No: Volume P, Page 26
Title & Location of Court: Circuit Court, Cook County, IL
Country of Birth: Canada
When Born: June 10, 1875
Date & Port of arrival in U.S.: June 18, 1892, Marie Sault St.
Date of Naturalization: January 26, 1907
James G. MacDermid, Composer, was 82
James G. MacDermid, composer, died on Tuesday in a Brooklyn nursing home at the age of 82. He lived until recently at the Riverside Plaza Hotel, 253 West Seventy-third Street.
His wife, Mrs. Sybil MacDermid, who died in 1941, was well known as a soprano under the name of Sybil Sammis-MacDermid. Mr. MacDermid toured many parts of the nation and abroad as piano accompanist for his wife. He was best known as a composer of scriptural music.
His works included "Ninety-first Psalm," "Arise, Shine, for They Light Is Come," and "In My Father's House Are Many Mansions."
Other were "Behold, What Manner of Love," and "Whiter Shall I Go from Thy Spirit." Mr. MacDermid was a Christian Scientist and he wrote solo settings for seven poems by Mary Baker Eddy, founder of that faith.
He was born in Utica, Ont., and became an American citizen in 1906. He studied piano in London, Ont., and voice in Duluth, Minn., and Chicago. Mr. MacDermid came to New York in 1921 and joined the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 1922.
∼
Naturalization Record:
Name: James Gardiner McDermid (not MacDermid)
Address: Lexington Hotel - 22 & Michigan
Certificate No: Volume P, Page 26
Title & Location of Court: Circuit Court, Cook County, IL
Country of Birth: Canada
When Born: June 10, 1875
Date & Port of arrival in U.S.: June 18, 1892, Marie Sault St.
Date of Naturalization: January 26, 1907
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