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Foster wrote over 200 songs; among his best-known are  Oh! Susanna ,  Camptown Races ,  Old Folks at Home ,  My Old Kentucky Home ,  Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair ,  Old Black Joe , and  Beautiful Dreamer . Many of his compositions remain popular more than 150 years after he wrote them.
In the charity ward of New Yorkâs Bellevue Hospital, Stephen Foster, Americaâs first professional songwriter, dies at the age of 37. Stephen Foster was born in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1826âthe 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. He developed his talent for music early and while still young began to compose in the style of African-American minstrel music.