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E. A. Hoffman
1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Author of "Jesus is Calling Now" in Songs of the Peacemaker 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
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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)
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E. A. Hoffman
George Beaverson
Person Name: Geo. Beaverson Composer of "[Jesus is calling you now!]" in Songs of the Peacemaker George Beaverson lived in Jersey City, New Jersey in the late 19th century and in New York City in 1917.
His works include:
The Peacemaker, with Winfield Weeden & Leonard Weaver (New York: Weeden & Van de Venter, 1894)
Songs of the Peacemaker, with Winfield Weeden & Leonard Weaver (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: J. W. Van de Venter & Company, 1895)
Then Up with the Starry Flag (New York: James H. Beaverson, 1917)
NN, Hymnary editor. Source: www.hymntime.com/
George Beaverson
