Edmund S. Lorenz

Pseudonums: John D. Cresswell, L. S. Edwards, E. D. Mund
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Edmund Simon Lorenz, 1854-1942
[Spirit and Life No. 2, 1896]
Born: Ju­ly 13, 1854, Stark Coun­ty, Ohio.
Died: Ju­ly 10, 1942, Day­ton Ohio.
Buried: Wood­land Cem­e­te­ry, Day­ton, Ohio.

Pseudonyms-
John D. Cress­well
L. S. Ed­wards
E. D. Mund

The Lo­renz fam­i­ly were Ad­vent­ists, and em­i­grat­ed from Mess­er, Russ­ia (near Sar­a­tow), to Amer­i­ca, and lived in Day­ton, Ohio. Ed­mund at­tend­ed Ot­ter­bein Un­i­ver­si­ty, Un­ion Bib­li­cal Sem­in­ary, Yale The­o­lo­gic­al Sem­i­na­ry, and the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Leip­zig. He served as pas­tor of the High Street Unit­ed Breth­ren Church in Day­ton, Ohio (1884-6), and as pre­si­dent of Le­ba­non Val­ley Coll­ege, Ann­ville, Penn­syl­van­ia (1886-8). He lat­er found­ed the Lo­renz and Com­pa­ny mu­sic pub­lish­ing house in Day­ton, Ohio. His works in­clude:

Gates of Praise, with Isai­ah Balt­zell (Day­ton, Ohio: W. J. Shu­ey, 1880)
Songs of the Cross, (Day­ton, Ohio: Unit­ed Breth­ren Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1876)
Heavenly Car­ols, with Isai­ah Balt­zell (Day­ton, Ohio: W. J. Shu­ey, 1878)
Fran­cis Mur­phy’s Gos­pel Tem­per­ance Hymn­al, with Jer­e­mi­ah Ran­kin (New York: A. S. Barnes & Com­pa­ny, 1878)
Notes of Vic­to­ry, with Will­iam Og­den (Day­ton, Ohio: Unit­ed Breth­ren Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1885)
Garnered Sheaves of Song for the Sun­day School, with Isai­ah Balt­zell (Day­ton, Ohio: W. J. Shu­ey, 1888)
Songs of the Morn­ing, with Isai­ah Balt­zell (Day­ton, Ohio: W. J. Shu­ey, 1889)
The Ot­ter­bein Hymn­al (Day­ton, Ohio: Unit­ed Breth­ren Pub­lish­ing House, 1892)
Spirit and Life, with Da­vid Dortch (Day­ton, Ohio: Christ­ian Pub­lish­ing As­so­ci­a­tion, 1893)
Spirit and Life No. 2 (Day­ton, Ohio: Lo­renz & Com­pa­ny, 1896)
Riches of Grace (Day­ton, Ohio: Lo­renz & Com­pa­ny, 1897)
Practical Church Mu­sic (New York: Flem­ing H. Re­vell Com­pa­ny, 1909)
The King’s Mes­sage, with Ira Wil­son (New York: Lo­renz Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1910)
The Be­gin­ners’ Choir, with Ira Wil­son (Day­ton, Ohio: Lor­enz Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1911)
Praise Ye, a Col­lect­ion of Sac­red Songs with Ira Wil­son (New York: Lor­enz Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1913)
His Worthy Praise, with Ira Wil­son (Day­ton, Ohio: Lor­enz Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1915)
Church Mu­sic: What a Min­i­ster Should Know About It (New York: Flem­ing H. Re­vell Com­pa­ny, 1923)
Music in Work and Wor­ship (New York: Flem­ing H. Re­vell Com­pa­ny, 1925)
The Sing­ing Church, 1937

Sources--
Hall, p. 194
Reynolds, pp. 360-1

--www.hymntime.com/tch

Pseudonym:
E. D. Mund