George Wilmeth Ewing

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Short Name:	George Wilmeth Ewing
Full Name:	Ewing, George Wilmeth, 1923-2010
Birth Year:	1923
Death Year:	2010

George Ewing earned an undergraduate degree at Abilene Christian University and M.A and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. He preached in Churches of Christ and served as a professor of English at Abilene Christian University from 1955 to 1992. He edited The Well-Tempered Lyre: Songs and Poems of the Temperance Movement (SMU Press). He had an interest in music throughout his life and wrote the hymn, “Sin sorrow of six thousand years” which was published in Great Songs of the Church, Revised, by ACU Press in 1986.

- Source: Monty Lynn

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