Short Name: | Joseph W. Lerman |
Full Name: | Lerman, Joseph W., 1865-1935 |
Birth Year: | 1865 |
Death Year: | 1935 |
Born: December 23, 1865, London (possibly Bethnal Green), England.
Died: October 24, 1935, Brooklyn, New York.
Lerman emigrated to America as a child (he does not appear in the 1871 British census), and was a member of the Olivet Memorial Church in New York City. He played the organ there (1880-1908), and later at the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church, Borough Park Christian Church, and Fourth Avenue Methodist Church, all in Brooklyn. He wrote a considerable amount of church and Sunday School music, and served as musical editor for the Tullar-Meredith Company of New York City, and the Theodore Pressure Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Sources--
Hughes, p. 472
Reynolds, p. 336
--www.hymntime.com/tch
Hymnals by Joseph W. Lerman (3) | As | Publication Year |
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Sermons in Song No. 3: a collection of gospel hymns for use in the Sunday school, church prayer meeting, young people's societies and general religious work and worship | J. W. Lerman (Assistant) | 1901 |
Sunday School Hymns No. 1 | J. W. Lerman (Editor) | 1903 |
The Festival Song Budget, Christmas | J. W. Lerman (Compiler of book 3) | 1913 |