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J. Owen Long
1876 - 1953 Composer of "[Are you drifting with the current?]" in Perfect Praise
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W. C. Martin
1864 - 1914 Person Name: Rev. W. C. Martin Author of "Are You Drifting" in Heavenly Sunlight Rv William Clark Martin USA 1864-1914. Born at Hightstown, NJ, he graduated from the Peddie Institute in Hightstown in 1884, and in 1891 from the Crozer Theological Seminary, Upland, PA. He became minister of the Grace Baptist Church, Camden, NJ,(1891-1894); Noank Baptist Church, Noank, CT (1894-1900); Tabernacle Baptist Church, New Albany, IN (1902-1904); First Baptist Church, Seymour, IN (1902-1904); First Baptist Church, Bluffton, IN (1904-1909); Grace Baptist Church, Somerville, MA (1909-1912); and First Baptist Church, Fort Myers, FL (1912-1914). In 1891 he married Euretta (Etta) May Wilcox, and they had at least three children (no names found). He penned many hymn lyrics. He died of heart failure at his farm in Rialto, FL.
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Powell G. Fithian
b. 1861 Composer of "[Are you drifting with the current]" in Heavenly Sunlight Born: April 30, 1861, Greenwich Township (now Gibbstown), New Jersey.
Fithian was music director for the public schools in Camden, New Jersey. He and his wife Julia were both listed in the 1910 and 1920 census, but his wife appears alone in the 1930 census. Powell’s works include:
Songs of the Mercy Seat, with George Hugg (Methodist Episcopal Book Room, 1899)
Songs for Work and Worship, with Howard Entwisle & Adam Geibel (Dayton, Ohio: Lorenz & Company, 1900)
Exalted Praise, with Howard Entwisle (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: MacCalla & Company, 1901)
Heavenly Sunlight, with Howard Entwisle & Adam Geibel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: MacCalla & Company, 1902)
The Fithian Music Primer (New York: American Book Company, 1915)
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Powell G. Fithian
