Light o'er the river

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman

A min­is­ter’s son, Hoffman at­tend­ed Un­ion Sem­in­ary in New Ber­lin, Penn­syl­van­ia, and was or­dained in 1868. Af­ter­ward, he worked with the Evan­gel­ic­al As­so­ci­a­tion’s pub­lish­ing arm in Cleve­land, Ohio for 11 years. He pas­tored in Cleve­land and Graft­on, Ohio, in the 1880s; at the First Presby­ter­i­an Church in Ben­ton Har­bor, Mich­i­gan, around the turn of the cen­tu­ry; and in Ca­bery, Ill­i­nois (1911-1922). In his life­time, he wrote over 2,000 Gos­pel songs. The 50 song books he edit­ed in­clude: •The Evergreen, 1873 •Spiritual Songs for Gos­pel Meet­ings and the Sun­day School, 1878 •Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: Hope Pub­lish­ing… Go to person page >