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[Oh, where will you be when eternity dawns]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: D. B. Towner Incipit: 13331 13555 35666 Used With Text: Oh, Where Will You Be?

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Oh, Where Will You Be?

Author: Rev. J. H. Sammis Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Oh, where will you be when eternity dawns Refrain First Line: Then where will you be, brother Used With Tune: [Oh, where will you be when eternity dawns]

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Oh, Where Will You Be?

Author: Rev. J. H. Sammis Hymnal: Towner's Male Choir Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 Combined #109 (1894) First Line: Oh, where will you be when eternity dawns Refrain First Line: Then where will you be, brother Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh, where will you be when eternity dawns]
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Oh, Where Will You Be?

Author: Rev. J. H. Sammis Hymnal: Hymns New and Old, No. 2 #69 (1890) First Line: Oh, where will you be when eternity dawns? Refrain First Line: Then, where will you be, brother Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh, where will you be when eternity dawns?]

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D. B. Towner

1850 - 1919 Composer of "[Oh, where will you be when eternity dawns]" in Towner's Male Choir Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 Combined Used pseudonyms Robert Beverly, T. R. Bowden ============================== Towner, Daniel B. (Rome, Pennsylvania, 1850--1919). Attended grade school in Rome, Penn. when P.P. Bliss was teacher. Later majored in music, joined D.L. Moody, and in 1893 became head of the music department at Moody Bible Institute. Author of more than 2,000 songs. --Paul Milburn, DNAH Archives

John H. Sammis

1846 - 1919 Person Name: Rev. J. H. Sammis Author of "Oh, Where Will You Be?" in Towner's Male Choir Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 Combined John H. Sammis was born in Brooklyn. He moved to Logansport, Indiana when ye was 22, where he was converted to Christianity. He was active in the Y.M.C.A., serving as secretary for the Terre Haute Association and later becoming State Secretary. After this, he studied at Lane and McCormack seminaries and was ordained in the Presbyterian church at Glidden, Iowa. He also pastored churches in Indianapolis, Grand Haven, MI, Red Wing and St. Paul, Minn. In 1909 he became associated with the Los Angeles Bible Institute. He wrote more that 100 hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
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