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Priscilla Jane Owens
1829 - 1907 Person Name: Priscilla J. Owens Author of "The King's Highway" in The Gospel Awakening Owens, Priscilla Jane, was born July 21, 1829, of Scotch and Welsh descent, and is now (1906) resident at Baltimore, where she is engaged in public-school work. For 50 years Miss Owen has interested herself in Sunday-school work, and most of her hymns were written for children's services. Her hymn in the Scotch Church Hymnary, 1898, "We have heard a joyful sound" (Missions), was written for a Sunday-school Mission Anniversary, and the words were adapted to the chorus "Vive le Roi" in the opera The Huguenots. [Rev. James Bonar, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix II (1907)
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Owens, Priscilla Jane. (July 21, 1829--December 5, 1907). Of Scottish and Welsh ancestry, she spent her entire life in Baltimore. She was a public school teacher there for 49 years. She was a member of the Union Square Methodist Church and took particular interest in its Sunday School.
Her literary efforts, both in prose and poetry, appeared in such religious periodicals as the Methodist Protestant and the Christian Standard.
--William J. Reynolds, DNAH Archives
Priscilla Jane Owens
Charles Edward Prior
1856 - 1927 Person Name: Chas. Edw. Prior Composer of "[We're marching to Mount Zion]" in The Gospel Awakening Charles Edward Prior, 1856-1927
Prior played the piano at the Italian Baptist Mission in Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 19th Century.
Music--
Go Stand and Speak
Work for Us All
--hymntime.com/tch
Charles Edward Prior
