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Jessie Brown Pounds
1861 - 1921 Author of "Going On" in The Cyber Hymnal 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
Charles K. Langley
1852 - 1904 Composer of "[The fires of the sun shall be quenched at last]" in The Cyber Hymnal Charles King Langley, Sr., 1852-1904
Born: March 17, 1852, Marysville, Ohio.
Died: 1904, Stuttgart, Arkansas, of typhoid fever.
Buried: Fairmount Cemetery, Belcher, Arkansas.
Music
ALPERTON
CROWN HIM WITH REJOICING
GOING ON
JUDAH'S STAR IS RISEN
ON WHICH SIDE WILL YOU BE FOUND?
WE'LL FOLLOW ON
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
Charles K. Langley
