Andrew L. Byers

Andrew Linnaeus Byers, 1869-1952

Born: Au­gust 26, 1869, Al­bany, Il­li­nois.
Died: No­vem­ber 9, 1952, Sa­cra­men­to, Cal­i­for­nia.
Buried: Sa­cra­men­to Me­mor­i­al Lawn Cem­e­te­ry, Sa­cra­men­to, Cal­i­for­nia.

Byers’ mo­ther was song writer Nancy By­ers. In 1890, he joined Daniel War­ner & Bar­ney War­ren in evan­gel­is­tic work, then joined the Gos­pel Trump­et pub­lish­ing com­pa­ny as mu­sic ed­it­or the next year. He left the Gos­pel Trump­et in 1922 for health reasons, & worked as an evan­gel­ist and pas­tor in Ida­ho & Or­e­gon be­fore tak­ing a pas­tor­ate in Sac­ra­men­to, Cal­i­for­nia, in 1934. His works in­clude:

Birth of a Reformation: The Life and La­bors of D. S. War­ner, 1922

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