Who invented the song jingle bells

His older sister, Juliet, married millionaire Junius Spencer Morgan, and their oldest child, John Pierpont Morgan, followed his father into the banking business and became one of the most powerful financiers of the Gilded Age.

Credit: Deirdre. From an early age, James Lord Pierpont sought adventures far away from his family in Boston. At the age of 14, he ran off from boarding school, joined the crew of a whaling ship and spent nearly a decade at sea. When the California Gold Rush struck in , Pierpont left his wife and children behind in Massachusetts while he chased riches in the West. Returning home several years later no wealthier than when he left, Pierpont departed from his family again in to become the organist at a Unitarian church in Savannah, Georgia, that was pastored by his brother.

Credit: Library of Congress. While his father and brother took fiery stands against slavery, Pierpont became a staunch supporter of the Confederacy. When his brother was forced to close his church and return to the North in due to his abolitionist preaching, Pierpont remained in Savannah.

When war broke out, he enlisted with the 1st Georgia Cavalry and served as a company clerk. His father, meanwhile, served on the Union side as chaplain of the 22nd Massachusetts Infantry.

There's also a plaque in Savannah, Georgia, where people insist Pierpont wrote the song in late before leading the first "Jingle Bells" sing-along in a local church. Hamill says Pierpont most likely wrote the song in a rooming house not far from where he lived in downtown Boston in Ten days before Christmas , astronauts Walter M.

Looks like he might be going to re-enter soon You just might let me pick up that thing I see a command module and eight smaller modules in front. The pilot of the command module is wearing a red suit. Hate-filled emails flooded her inbox, Hamill of Boston University told the Guardian. Hamill had probed the origins of the popular carol, hoping to settle a friendly rivalry between Medford, Massachusetts, and Savannah, Georgia, over where Jingle Bells was written.

About two years ago she stumbled across a rather different story. The song, initially known as One Horse Open Sleigh, was first performed in blackface in a minstrel show in Boston in September , she discovered.

The song was written by James Pierpont, who badly needed work after failing at several other professional ventures. Last year she detailed her findings to local media, yielding a front page story in the Boston Globe and no backlash. This year, however, was a different story.