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Jessie Brown Pounds
1861 - 1921 Author of "O Life in Whom is Life Indeed" in Hymns for Today Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis.
A memorable phrase would come to her, she would write it down in her notebook. Maybe a couple months later she would write out the entire hymn. She is the author of nine books, about fifty librettos for cantatas and operettas and of nearly four hundred hymns. Her hymn "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" was sung at President McKinley's funeral.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
Jessie Brown Pounds
Edouard Batiste
1820 - 1876 Person Name: Baptiste Composer of "[O life in whom is life indeed]" in Hymns for Today Also known as Antoine-Edouard. Batiste was born in Paris in 1820. His father was an opera singer. Edouard studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris. He went on to teach at the Conservatoire and was an organist, composer and conductor.
Dianne Shapiro, from Aeoulus Music (https://aeolus-music.com/ae_en/Composers/Batiste-Edouard) accessed 7-15-2018
Edouard Batiste
