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Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[Keep step in the march for the truth and right] " in The New Praiseworthy Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree ============= 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

Jessie Brown Pounds

1861 - 1921 Person Name: Jessie H. Brown Author of "Keep Step in the March" in The New Praiseworthy 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 H. Brown

Author of "Keep Step in the March" in Inspiring Hymns See Pounds, Jessie Brown, 1861-1921

T. P. Burt

b. 1859 Person Name: Thomas P. Burt Composer of "[Keep step in the march for the truth and right]" in The Eureka Echoes "THEODORE PARK BURT, a native of Mississippi, was born October 19, 1859, of Dutch and Irish descent. He attended the public schools in his county until 17, then entered the High School at Jacinto, Miss., securing a fair English education. He taught in the public schools of Mississippi, Alabama, and Oklahoma, for several years with success. In 1887 he began the study of vocal music, obtaining a first grade certificate under Prof. Oslin, and later a full normal course. Afterwards, from Prof. H. R. Palmer, of New York City, he secured a diploma. He is one of our best singers. In 1891 he was married to Miss Josie Allen, who is to the present his faithful companion. They obeyed the Gospel January 12, 1897, since which time they have both been active workers in the church; in 1907 he began preaching the Gospel in almost destitute places. He teaches vocal music, and in this way makes his living." Nichol, Harriet, "Gospel Preachers in Texas and Oklahoma" (1911). Stone-Campbell Books. 308. https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/crs_books/308

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