[Let us go forth to our labor of love]

Composer: J. H. Keagle

Joseph Henry Keagle, 1857-1928 Born: May 21, 1857, Rock Run Township, Illinois. Died: November 10, 1928, Naperville, Illinois. Buried: Phillips Cemetery, Rockton, Illinois. Son of William Harrison Keagle and Hannah E. Springer, Keagle was a teacher and minister. By 1884, the record shows him conducting funerals in Naperville. In 1888, he married Rachel G. Graham (1864-1952), with whom he had eight children. In 1898, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress from the Ninth District of Illinois as a Prohibitionist candidate. As of 1919, Keagle was pastor of Grace United Evangelical Church in Naperville. --www.hymntime.com/tch  Go to person page >