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Lewis E. Jones
1865 - 1936 Person Name: L. E. J. Author of "Gather the Sheaves" in Songs of Love and Praise No. 3 Pseudonyms: Mary Slater
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Lewis Edgar Jones USA 1865-1936. Born in Yates City, IL, his family moved near Davenport, IA, where he lived on a farm until age 21. He went into business for awhile, and attended the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. He was a classmate of evangelist, Billy Sunday. After graduating, he worked for the YMCA in Davenport, IA; Fort Worth, TX (1915, as general secretary); and Santa Barbara, CA (1925 as general secretary). Hymn writing was his avocation, and he wrote 200+, advising that many came from pastors’ sermons. He married Lora May Wright (1872-1950), and they had a daughter, Frances Ellen (1897-1982). He died in Santa Barbara, CA.
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Fred S. Shepard
1840 - 1907 Person Name: F. S. S. Author of "Harvest Fields" in The Golden Sheaf
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Jane Gray
1796 - 1871 Author of "See the ripened, waving grain" Gray, Jane, née Lewers, died Nov. 18, 1871. A selection of her poems was printed in New York for private circulation, in 1872, as Selections from the Poetical Writings of Jane Lewers Gray.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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