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Johnson Oatman, Jr.
1856 - 1922 Person Name: Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. Author of "When My Soul Reaches Home" in The King's Message Johnson Oatman, Jr., son of Johnson and Rachel Ann Oatman, was born near Medford, N. J., April 21, 1856. His father was an excellent singer, and it always delighted the son to sit by his side and hear him sing the songs of the church.
Outside of the usual time spent in the public schools, Mr. Oatman received his education at Herbert's Academy, Princetown, N. J., and the New Jersey Collegiate Institute, Bordentown, N. J. At the age of nineteen he joined the M.E. Church, and a few years later he was granted a license to preach the Gospel, and still later he was regularly ordained by Bishop Merrill. However, Mr. Oatman only serves as a local preacher.
For many years he was engaged with his father in the mercantile business at Lumberton, N. J., under the firm name of Johnson Oatman & Son. Since the death of his father, he has for the past fifteen years been in the life insurance business, having charge of the business of one of the great companies in Mt. Holly, N. J., where he resides.
He has written over three thousand hymns, and no gospel song book is considered as being complete unless it contains some of his hymns.
In 1878 he married Wilhelmina Reid, of Lumberton, N.J. and had three children, Rachel, Miriam, and Percy.
Excerpted from Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers by Jacob Henry Hall; Fleming H. Revell, Co. 1914
Johnson Oatman, Jr.
Powell G. Fithian
b. 1861 Composer of "[Tho' the storm beaten waves may dash o'er me]" in The King's Message Born: April 30, 1861, Greenwich Township (now Gibbstown), New Jersey.
Fithian was music director for the public schools in Camden, New Jersey. He and his wife Julia were both listed in the 1910 and 1920 census, but his wife appears alone in the 1930 census. Powell’s works include:
Songs of the Mercy Seat, with George Hugg (Methodist Episcopal Book Room, 1899)
Songs for Work and Worship, with Howard Entwisle & Adam Geibel (Dayton, Ohio: Lorenz & Company, 1900)
Exalted Praise, with Howard Entwisle (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: MacCalla & Company, 1901)
Heavenly Sunlight, with Howard Entwisle & Adam Geibel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: MacCalla & Company, 1902)
The Fithian Music Primer (New York: American Book Company, 1915)
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
Powell G. Fithian
Herman von Berge
1871 - 1963 Person Name: H. von Berge Author of "Wenn zuletzt ich daheim" in Sänger-Bote Herman von Berge was born in Germany. He graduated from Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, a German Baptist seminary. He was a minister, a professor at Colgate-Rochester, a composer, and editor at Lorenz Music Publishing.
From "Life as a Baptist Pastor, Composer Brings Tribute to Von Berge" by Anne Hitch, Journal Herald Staff Writer, accessed March 19, 2022 from Dearest Irma: letters my grandmother saved" (https://dearestirma.wordpress.com/tag/herman-von-berge/)
Herman von Berge
