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[O my Father, rough and steep]
Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: S. W. Straub Incipit: 33335 42222 24313 Used With Text: The pilgrim's song
[O my Father, rough and steep]
The Pilgrim's Song
Author: E. E. Rexford Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: Oh, my Father, rough and steep Refrain First Line: Tho' the way is steep and long Used With Tune: [Oh, my Father, rough and steep]
The Pilgrim's Song
The pilgrim's song
Author: E. E. Rexford Hymnal: Beautiful Songs; a new and choice collection of songs for the sunday school. Also, a responsive service for each month in the year #100 (1887) First Line: O my Father, rough and steep Refrain First Line: Though the way is steep and long Languages: English Tune Title: [O my Father, rough and steep]
The pilgrim's song
The Pilgrim's Song
Author: E. E. Rexford Hymnal: The Morning Light, Enlarged #37 (1882) First Line: Oh, my Father, rough and steep Refrain First Line: Tho' the way is steep and long Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh, my Father, rough and steep]
The Pilgrim's Song
The Pilgrim's Song
Author: E. E. Rexford Hymnal: The Morning Light #37 (1880) First Line: Oh, my Father, rough and steep Refrain First Line: Tho' the way is steep and long Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh, my Father, rough and steep]
The Pilgrim's Song
Eben E. Rexford
1848 - 1916 Person Name: E. E. Rexford Author of "The pilgrim's song" in Beautiful Songs; a new and choice collection of songs for the sunday school. Also, a responsive service for each month in the year Rexford, Eben Eugene.M (Johnsburg, New York, July 16, 1848--October 16, 1916, Shiocton, Wisconsin). Horticulturalist and editor of a Wisconsin farm journal. Many of his verses were used to fill empty corners of the journal. He also wrote many books on gardening. Lawrence University (Appleton, Wisc.), Litt.D. Twenty-five years, organist at First Congregational Church, Shiocton.
See: Smith, Mary L.P. (1930). Eben E. Rexford; a biographical sketch. Menasha, Wis., George Banta Pub. Co.
--Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives and Gabriel, Charles H. (1916). Singers and Their Songs. Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company.
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Rexford, Eben Eugene , an American writer, born July 16, 1848, is the author of Nos. 199, 246, 263, 353, in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos), 1878, No. 5, and 456 in the Methodist Sunday School Hymnbook, 1879.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Rexford, E. E. , p. 1587, ii. Additional hymns by this author in common use include:—
1. He saw the wheat fields waiting. Harvest of the World.
2. O where are the reapers. Missions.
3. Rouse up to work that waits for us. Duty.
4. We are sailing o'er an ocean. Life's Vicissitudes.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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Eben E. Rexford
S. W. Straub
1842 - 1899 Composer of "[O my Father, rough and steep]" in Beautiful Songs; a new and choice collection of songs for the sunday school. Also, a responsive service for each month in the year Solomon.W Straub Solomon was the brother of Maria Straub. His father Joseph was a farmer. His parents, who were of German descent.
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