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[When our cheer has gone and we struggle on]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Claude P. Ganus Incipit: 34545 12323 55617 Used With Text: O Bells of Home

Author: James Rowe Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: When our cheer has gone and we struggle on Refrain First Line: O bells of home, so tender and so sweet Used With Tune: [When our cheer has gone and we struggle on]

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O Bells of Home

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: The Ganus Hymnal #28 (1932) First Line: When our cheer has gone and we struggle on Tune Title: [When our cheer has gone and we struggle on]

O Bells of Home

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Crowning Hymns No. 12 #170 (1931) First Line: When our cheer has gone and we struggle on Refrain First Line: O bells of home, so tender and so sweet Languages: English Tune Title: [When our cheer has gone and we struggle on]

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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Author of "O Bells of Home" in Crowning Hymns No. 12 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)

Claude P. Ganus

1904 - 1989 Composer of "[When our cheer has gone and we struggle on]" in Crowning Hymns No. 12 Claude Patton Ganus, brother of Clyde P. Ganus, son of W. P. Ganus. - Garrett Herndon, from findagrave.com, accessed 5/27/2025