1867 - 1932 Person Name: John Sylvester Fearis Composer of "[Someone will climb life’s rugged hills]" in The Cyber Hymnal John Sylvester Fearis, 1867-1932
Born: February 5, 1867, Richland, Iowa.
Died: September 2, 1932, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
Fearis’ father was a successful singing school teacher, and a painter by trade. At a young age, John learned to read music in his father’s classes. He was passionately fond of music, and, taking lessons on the reed organ, he was soon able to play in Sunday school and church. Later he took charge of the church choir, and taught singing classes in nearby towns. He wrote his first hymn tune at age 16. He eventually joined the editorial staff of the Choir Leader, published by the Lorenz Publishing Company in Dayton, Ohio.
Sources--
Choir Herald, December 1932, p. 219
Emurian, p. 17
Hall, pp. 393-4
Lyrics--
Brightly Beams Another Morning
Children’s Day
Show Me the Way, My Shepherd
What Comfort to Our Hearts
What Wonderful Love Is the Love
Music--
Be Thou Exalted
Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
God May Call for You
Little Raindrops
Promise Made to Mother, The
Songs in the Night
Show Me the Way, My Shepherd
There’s Light for a Step
Wherever He Leads Me I’ll Go
--hymntime.com/tch
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