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We Shall Reach it By and By

Author: James Rowe Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: There is a fairer world above Refrain First Line: There is a home, a peaceful, happy home Used With Tune: [There is a fairer world above]
We Shall Reach it By and By

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[There is a fairer world above]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Thos. F. Johnson Incipit: 56713 65123 16231 Used With Text: We Shall Reach it By and By
[There is a fairer world above]

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We Shall Reach it By and By

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Cheerful Chimes #121 (1930) First Line: There is a fairer world above Refrain First Line: There is a home, a peaceful, happy home Languages: English Tune Title: [There is a fairer world above]
We Shall Reach it By and By
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We Shall Reach it By and By

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Hallelujahs #124 (1922) First Line: There is a fairer world above Refrain First Line: There is a home, a peaceful, happy home Languages: English Tune Title: [There is a fairer world above]
We Shall Reach it By and By

There is a home, a peaceful, happy home

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Better Convention Songs, Our 1929 Book #d113 (1928) First Line: There is a fairer world above Languages: English
There is a home, a peaceful, happy home

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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Author of "We Shall Reach it By and By" in Hallelujahs Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
James Rowe

Thomas Franklin Johnson

Person Name: Thos. F. Johnson Composer of "[There is a fairer world above]" in Hallelujahs
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