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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Author of "The Saloon Must Be Going" in Songs of the New Crusade Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke ============ Hoffman, Elisha Albright, author of "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?" (Holiness desired), in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1881, was born in Pennsylvania, May 7, 1839. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ==============

Daniel Decatur Emmett

1815 - 1904 Person Name: Dan D. Emmett Author of "Dixie's Land" in The Service Song Book

George S. Railton

1849 - 1913 Person Name: Commissioner Railton Author of "Right Away" in One Hundred Favorite Songs and Music

W. F. P. Munsey

Person Name: Rev. W. F. P. Munsey Author of "Look Away to Jesus" in Fairer than Day (Enlarged Edition)

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