Lewis Hartsough

Hartsough, Lewis, was born at Ithaca, New York, Aug. 31, 1823. Of his hymns the following are in common use:—-
1. I hear Thy welcome voice. The Divine Invitation.
2. In the rifted Rock I'm resting. Safety in Jesus.
3. Lead me to the Rock that's higher. Safety in Jesus.
4. O who'll stand up for Jesus? All for Jesus
Nos. 1-3 are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878 (1 and 3 with music by Hartsough).

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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Born: Au­gust 31 1828, Ith­a­ca, New York.
Died: Jan­u­a­ry 1, 1919, Mount Ver­non, Io­wa.
Buried: Mount Ver­non, Io­wa.

Hartsough grad­u­at­ed from the Ca­ze­no­via Sem­in­ary in 1852, was or­dained a Meth­od­ist min­is­ter in 1853, and joined the Onei­da Con­fer­ence in New York. Around 1868, he moved west for health rea­sons, be­com­ing su­per­in­tend­ent of the Utah Mis­sion, then pre­sid­ing el­der of the Wy­om­ing Dis­trict. About the same time, he served as mu­sic­al ed­it­or for Jo­seph Hil­lman’s Re­viv­al­ist. In 1871, Hartsough be­came pas­tor of the Meth­od­ist church in Ep­worth, Io­wa. He trans­ferred to the North­west Io­wa Con­fer­ence in 1874, and re­tired in 1895.

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