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A. H. Ackley
1887 - 1960 Person Name: Alfred H. Ackley Meter: 13.13.13.11 with refrain Author of "He Lives" in The Worshiping Church 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
George P. Simmonds
1890 - 1991 Person Name: George P. Simmonds, 1890-1991 Meter: 13.13.13.11 with refrain Translator of "I Serve a Risen Savior (Al Cristo vivo sirvo)" in Santo, Santo, Santo Used pseudonyms G Paul S., J. Paul Simon, and J. Pablo SÃmon
George P. Simmonds
Mrs. C. H. Morris
1862 - 1929 Person Name: Leila N. Morris Meter: 13.13.13.11 with refrain Author of "At the Battle's Front" in Timeless Truths Lelia (Mrs. C.H.) Morris (1862-1929) was born in Pennsville, Morgan County, Ohio. When her family moved to Malta on the Muskingum River she and her sister and mother had a millinery shop in McConnelsville. She and her husband Charles H. Morris were active in the Methodist Episcopal Church and at the camp meetings in Sebring and Mt. Vernon. She wrote hymns as she did her housework. Although she became blind at age 52 she continued to write hymns on a 28-foot long blackboard that her family had built for her. She is said to have written 1000 texts and many tunes including "Sweeter as the years go by."
Mary Louise VanDyke
Mrs. C. H. Morris
