1856 - 1904 Author of "Jehovah, God who dwelt of old" in The Wesleyan Methodist Hymnal Amis, Lewis R., born in 1856, and died in 1904, is given in the American Methodist Hymnal, 1905, as the author of "Jehovah God, Who dwelt of old" (Dedication of a Place of Worship).
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Lewis R. Amis