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John R. Clements

1868 - 1946 Author of "My Strength, My Son" in Hallowed Hymns, New and Old John R. Clements was born in County Armagh, Ireland 28 November 1868 and was brought to the United States at the age of two years. He worked at the age of thirteen as a retail grocery clerk and had a successful wholesale grocery business. He began writing poetry when he was young. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
John R. Clements

I. Allan Sankey

1874 - 1915 Composer of "[O blessed Christ, to Thee I come]" in Hallowed Hymns, New and Old Ira Allan Sankey, 1874-1915 Born: Au­gust 30, 1874, Ed­in­burgh, Scot­land. Died: December 30, 1915, United States. Son of Ira Sank­ey, Al­len stu­died ci­vil en­gin­eer­ing and ar­chi­tect­ure at Prince­ton Un­i­ver­si­ty, grad­u­at­ing in 1897. In 1898, he be­came pre­si­dent of the Big­low & Main mu­sic pub­lish­ers in New York Ci­ty. He al­so served as vice-pre­si­dent of the Leeds and Cat­lin Pho­no­graph Com­pa­ny, and on the Ad­vi­so­ry Board of the Green­ich Bank. His works in­clude: The Male Quar­tette, with George Steb­bins Best En­dea­vor Hymns, with John Cle­ments (New York: The Big­low & Main Co., 1907) Hallowed Hymns, New and Old (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: The Big­low & Main Co., 1908) Sources-- Hall, pp. 409-410 Music-- Cidenton Go and Work! Great Is His Mercy Kept for Je­sus Lead Me Lord, Send Us Forth Never Give Up Old Orchard Year of Pre­cious Bless­ings, A --hymntime.com/tch
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