Jane M. Campbell

Englsih songwriter and music teacher. Born 1817 in London, Died at Bovey Tracey, Nov. 15, 1878. Most well known of her works is "We Plough The Fields", which she translated from a poem by Matthias Claudius. The song was added to a new church hymnal in 1861, along with some other translations from German. It has become a favorite harvest hymn in modern churches.