Does the world no rest afford?

Author: James Rowe

Born: Jan­u­a­ry 1, 1865, Hor­ra­bridge, De­von­shire, Eng­land. Died: No­vem­ber 10, 1933, Wells, Ver­mont. Son of John Rowe, a cop­per min­er, James worked for the Ir­ish gov­ern­ment for four years, then em­i­grat­ed to Amer­i­ca at age 24. He set­tled in Al­ba­ny, New York, and worked in rail­roads in New York for 10 years. He then be­came an in­spect­or for the Hud­son Riv­er Hu­mane So­ci­e­ty. He then worked for mu­sic pub­lish­ers in Tex­as and Ten­nes­see, and in his lat­er years, moved to Vermont and worked with his daugh­ter, an artist, writ­ing vers­es for greet­ing cards. --hymntime.com/tch Go to person page >