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A. H. Ackley

1887 - 1960 Person Name: Rev. A. H. Ackley Composer of "[Jesus is the sinner's Friend]" in Great Revival Hymns No. 2 Alfred Henry Ackley was born 21 January 1887 in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest son of Stanley Frank Ackley and the younger brother of B. D. Ackley. His father taught him music and he also studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary in Maryland and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1914. He served churches in Pennsylvania and California. He also worked with the Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver evangelist team and for Homer Rodeheaver's publishing company. He wrote around 1500 hymns. He died 3 July 1960 in Los Angeles. Dianne Shapiro (from ackleygenealogy.com by Ed Ackley and Allen C. Ackley)

Richard Henry

1876 - 1949 Author of "Jesus Keeps the Heart Right" in Great Revival Hymns No. 2 Born Richard Henry Cost (son of Richard Henry Cost), known as Harry. Used pseudonym Richard Henry.

Harry Cost (See also Henry, Richard)

Person Name: Richard Henry Cost, Jr. Author of "Jesus Keeps The Heart Right" in The Cyber Hymnal Used pseudonym Richard Henry. See also Henry, Richard

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