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Jesus Is a Friend of Mine
Author: Paul Mazak Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: [Jesus is a friend of mine]
Jesus Is a Friend of Mine
Is He Yours
Author: George O. Webster Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Jesus is a Rriend of mine, Is He yours, is He yours? Refrain First Line: Is He Yours—this friend of mine?
Is He Yours
Jesus Is a Friend of Mine
Author: Edwin O. Excell Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Jesus is a friend of mine, Naught my love can sever Refrain First Line: Jesus, Jesus, Precious precious name divine
Jesus Is a Friend of Mine
[Jesus is a friend of mine]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Paul Mazak; Emily R. Brink Used With Text: Jesus Is a Friend of Mine
[Jesus is a friend of mine]
[Jesus is a friend of mine]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Kenneth Fulkerson Used With Text: O What a Friend Is He
[Jesus is a friend of mine]
[Jesus is a friend of mine]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Wm. A. McKinney Used With Text: Where He Leads I'll Go
[Jesus is a friend of mine]
Jesus Is a Friend of Mine
Author: Paul Mazak Hymnal: Songs for Life #36 (1995) Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus is a friend of mine]
Jesus Is a Friend of Mine
Jesus Is a Friend Of Mine
Author: Gladys Tomkins; D. M. A. Hymnal: Mount Hermon Melodies, book two #33 (1944) Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus is a Friend of mine]
Jesus Is a Friend Of Mine
Jesus is a Friend of Mine
Author: E. O. Excell Hymnal: The Wells of Salvation #127 (1881) Refrain First Line: Jesus, Jesus, Precious precious name divine! Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus is a Friend of mine]
Jesus is a Friend of Mine
E. O. Excell
1851 - 1921 Person Name: Edwin O. Excell Author of "Jesus Is a Friend of Mine" Edwin Othello Excel USA 1851-1921. Born at Uniontown, OH, he started working as a bricklayer and plasterer. He loved music and went to Chicago to study it under George Root. He married Eliza Jane “Jennie” Bell in 1871. They had a son, William, in 1874. A member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he became a prominent publisher, composer, song leader, and singer of music for church, Sunday school, and evangelistic meetings. He founded singing schools at various locations in the country and worked with evangelist, Sam Jones, as his song leader for two decades. He established a music publishing house in Chicago and authored or composed over 2,000 gospel songs. While assisting Gypsy Smith in an evangelistic campaign in Louisville, KY, he became ill, and died in Chicago, IL. He published 15 gospel music books between 1882-1925. He left an estate valued at $300,000.
John Perry
E. O. Excell
John R. Sweney
1837 - 1899 Person Name: Jno. R. Sweney Composer of "[Jesus is a Friend of mine]" in The Wells of Salvation John R. Sweney (1837-1899) was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and exhibited musical abilities at an early age. At nineteen he was studying with a German music teacher, leading a choir and glee club, and performing at children’s entertainments. By twenty-two he was teaching at a school in Dover, Delaware. Soon thereafter, he was put in charge of the band of the Third Delaware Regiment of the Union Army for the duration of the Civil War. After the war, he became Professor of Music at the Pennsylvania Military Academy, and director of Sweney’s Cornet Band. He eventually earned Bachelor and Doctor of Music degrees at the Academy.
Sweney began composing church music in 1871 and became well-known as a leader of large congregations. His appreciators stated “Sweney knows how to make a congregation sing” and “He had great power in arousing multitudes.” He also became director of music for a large Sunday school at the Bethany Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia of which John Wanamaker was superintendent (Wanamaker was the founder of the first major department store in Philadelphia). In addition to his prolific output of hymn melodies and other compositions, Sweney edited or co-edited about sixty song collections, many in collaboration with William J. Kirkpatrick. Sweney died on April 10, 1899, and his memorial was widely attended and included a eulogy by Wanamaker.
Joe Hickerson from "Joe's Jottings #9" used by permission
John R. Sweney
Chas. H. Gabriel
1856 - 1932 Composer of "[Jesus is a friend of mine]" in Rodeheaver's Gospel Solos and Duets No. 2 Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree
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For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades.
Bert Polman
Chas. H. Gabriel
