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James Rowe
1865 - 1933 Author of "Everybody Ought to Love Him" in Hymns of Praise Number Two Pseudonym: James S. Apple.
James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
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Albert C. Fisher
1886 - 1946 Composer of "[Jesus came from Glory-land the world to save]" in Hymns of Praise Number Two Born: March 10, 1886, New Berne, North Carolina.
Died: February 6, 1946, Dallas, Texas.
Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Texas.
Fisher attended Fort Worth University and Polytechnic College, Fort Worth, Texas; Vanderbilt University; Southern Methodist University; and earned his Doctor of Divinity degree at Asbury College, Kentucky. He moved to Fort Worth in 1908, and for a decade served as a general evangelist for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In World War I, he was a military chaplain. After the war, he worked in the East Oklahoma Conference and (beginning in 1944), the North Texas Conference. His works include:
Best Revival Songs (Nashville, Tennessee: The Cokesbury Press, 1924) (music editor)
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Albert C. Fisher
