James Lord Pierpont "Pierpont, James 48, Eliza J. 38, Lillie 16, Thomas 8, Josiah 5, and Maynard B. 4." If Lillie is 16 in 1870, she was born in about 1854. In 1869, Pierpont moved to Quitman, Georgia. There he was the organist in the Presbyterian Church, gave private piano lessons and taught at the Quitman Academy, retiring as the head of the Musical Department. In 1880, Pierpont's son, Dr. Juriah Pierpont, M.D., renewed the copyright on "Jingle Bells" but he never made much money from it. It took considerable effort to keep his father's name permanently attached to the song after the
Christmas in Our Hearts make it a silver jubilee song for the Assumption High School Class of 1963. He described "Ang Tubig ay Buhay" as a very beautiful poem, which is why he found it easy to compose a tune for it: Before production started, Chan had attended Mass at Santuario de San Antonio in Forbes Park, Makati, when songwriter Rina Cañiza knocked on his car window. Canizal later wrote the words of "Christmas in Our Hearts" using Chan's melody for "Ang Tubig ay Buhay". "Christmas in Our Hearts" is the best-selling album not only by Chan, but by an Original Pilipino Music (OPM)