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Marching with our Captain

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Marching onward with our King

[Marching onward with our King]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Mason G. Barrow Used With Text: Marching with Our Captain

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Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Hosannas #25 (1917) First Line: Marching onward with our King Refrain First Line: March, march, march, march Languages: English Tune Title: [Marching onward with our King]

Marching with our Captain

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Tribute of Praise #d66 (1918) First Line: Marching onward with our King

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Mason G. Barrow

Composer of "[Marching onward with our King]" in Hosannas

E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Author of "Marching with Our Captain" in Hosannas Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke ============ Hoffman, Elisha Albright, author of "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?" (Holiness desired), in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1881, was born in Pennsylvania, May 7, 1839. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ==============