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About America the Beautiful : The lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates . The music was composed by Samuel A. Ward at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey . The two never met . Bates originally wrote the words as a poem, "Pikes Peak", first published in the Fourth of July edition of the church periodical The Congregationalist in 1895 . Ward had originally written the music, "Materna", for the hymn "O Mother dear, Jerusalem" Bates was an English professor at Wellesley College in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1893 . Bates was a Wellesley professor at the age of 33 . America the Beautiful has a significant contribution from artist(s) Katharine Lee Bates,Samuel A. Ward.

About Samuel A. Ward - Samuel Augustus Ward was born in Newark, New Jersey . He studied under several teachers in New York and became organist at Grace Episcopal Church in his home town . He married Virginia Ward in 1871 . The tune "Materna" was intended as a setting for hymn "O Mother Dear, Jerusalem" Ward never met Bates, who never met him . The tune was first combined with the poem "America the Beautiful" Samuel Ward was the founder and first director of the still extant Orpheus Club of Newark . He was the last in an unbroken line of Samuel Wards, beginning with Rhode Island Governor and Representative to the Continental Congress .