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Ackley's Gospel Songs
Publication Date: 1913 Publisher: The Glad Tidings Pub. Co. Publication Place: Chicago Editors: B. D. Ackley; The Glad Tidings Pub. Co.
Ackley's Gospel Songs
He always understands
Author: A. H. Ackley Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: All sinful and foolish, my life
He always understands
Holy Spirit, be my guide
Author: Johnson Oatman Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: All the way that I must go Refrain First Line: Be my guide, O be my guide
Holy Spirit, be my guide
Altogether lovely is the name I sing
Author: Eliza E. Hewitt Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Altogether lovely is my Savior Friend
Altogether lovely is the name I sing
He always understands
Author: A. H. Ackley Hymnal: AGS1913 #d1 (1913) First Line: All sinful and foolish, my life Languages: English
He always understands
Holy Spirit, be my guide
Author: Johnson Oatman Hymnal: AGS1913 #d2 (1913) First Line: All the way that I must go Refrain First Line: Be my guide, O be my guide Languages: English
Holy Spirit, be my guide
Altogether lovely is the name I sing
Author: Eliza E. Hewitt Hymnal: AGS1913 #d3 (1913) First Line: Altogether lovely is my Savior Friend Languages: English
Altogether lovely is the name I sing
A. H. Ackley
1887 - 1960 Hymnal Number: d1 Author of "He always understands" in Ackley's Gospel Songs 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)
A. H. Ackley
Johnson Oatman, Jr.
1856 - 1922 Person Name: Johnson Oatman Hymnal Number: d2 Author of "Holy Spirit, be my guide" in Ackley's Gospel Songs Johnson Oatman, Jr., son of Johnson and Rachel Ann Oatman, was born near Medford, N. J., April 21, 1856. His father was an excellent singer, and it always delighted the son to sit by his side and hear him sing the songs of the church.
Outside of the usual time spent in the public schools, Mr. Oatman received his education at Herbert's Academy, Princetown, N. J., and the New Jersey Collegiate Institute, Bordentown, N. J. At the age of nineteen he joined the M.E. Church, and a few years later he was granted a license to preach the Gospel, and still later he was regularly ordained by Bishop Merrill. However, Mr. Oatman only serves as a local preacher.
For many years he was engaged with his father in the mercantile business at Lumberton, N. J., under the firm name of Johnson Oatman & Son. Since the death of his father, he has for the past fifteen years been in the life insurance business, having charge of the business of one of the great companies in Mt. Holly, N. J., where he resides.
He has written over three thousand hymns, and no gospel song book is considered as being complete unless it contains some of his hymns.
In 1878 he married Wilhelmina Reid, of Lumberton, N.J. and had three children, Rachel, Miriam, and Percy.
Excerpted from Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers by Jacob Henry Hall; Fleming H. Revell, Co. 1914
Johnson Oatman, Jr.
E. E. Hewitt
1851 - 1920 Person Name: Eliza E. Hewitt Hymnal Number: d3 Author of "Altogether lovely is the name I sing" in Ackley's Gospel Songs Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds.
Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
E. E. Hewitt
