Eben E. Rexford

Eben E. Rexford (1848-1916)
Born: Ju­ly 16, 1848, Johns­burgh, New York.
Died: Oc­to­ber 18, 1916, Green Bay, Wis­con­sin.
Buried: Bovina Cem­e­te­ry, be­tween Black Creek & Shi­oc­ton, Wis­con­sin.

Rexford’s fam­ily moved to Wis­con­sin in 1855 and set­tled in the town of El­ling­ton. He re­ceived his ear­ly ed­u­ca­tion in the Mea­ger coun­ty schools and at Law­rence Coll­ege, which lat­er award­ed him a Ba­che­lor of Lit­er­a­ture de­gree. His lit­er­ary gi­fts be­came ev­i­dent ear­ly in life, and his first vers­es were pub­lished in the New York Ledger when he was 14 years old.
In 1890, Rex­ford mar­ried Mrs. Har­riet Bau­man Harsh. He served as town clerk of Bo­vi­na for ma­ny years, and dur­ing Gro­ver Cleve­land’s first ad­min­is­tra­tion was post­mast­er of Shi­oc­ton, Wis­con­sin.
Rex­ford com­posed ma­ny hymns, in­clud­ing ones used by Ira Sank­ey, Ed­win Ex­cell, Charles Ga­bri­el, and Billy Sun­day. One of his best known sec­u­lar works was the po­em “Sil­ver Threads Among the Gold,” which was turned into a song that sold over three mil­lion co­pies (mu­sic by Hart Danks).

Hymns--
1.By and By
2.How You Will Love Him!
3.Little Sunbeams
4.Just for Today
5.O Do Some Good Deed Every Day
6.O Where Are the Reapers?
7.Song of Heaven and Homeland, A

--hymntime.com/tch
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Rexford, Eben Eugene , an American writer, born July 16, 1848, is the author of Nos. 199, 246, 263, 353, in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos), 1878, No. 5, and 456 in the Methodist Sunday School Hymnbook, 1879.

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