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E. O. Excell
1851 - 1921 Person Name: E. O. E. Composer of "[Of Him who did salvation bring]" in International Praise Edwin Othello Excel USA 1851-1921. Born at Uniontown, OH, he started working as a bricklayer and plasterer. He loved music and went to Chicago to study it under George Root. He married Eliza Jane “Jennie” Bell in 1871. They had a son, William, in 1874. A member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he became a prominent publisher, composer, song leader, and singer of music for church, Sunday school, and evangelistic meetings. He founded singing schools at various locations in the country and worked with evangelist, Sam Jones, as his song leader for two decades. He established a music publishing house in Chicago and authored or composed over 2,000 gospel songs. While assisting Gypsy Smith in an evangelistic campaign in Louisville, KY, he became ill, and died in Chicago, IL. He published 15 gospel music books between 1882-1925. He left an estate valued at $300,000.
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E. O. Excell
Anonymous
Person Name: Anon. Author of "At the Fountain" in Crowning Day No. 5 In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
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Eva L. Wells
Person Name: Miss Eva L. Wells Composer of "[Of Him who did salvation bring]" in Songs of Victory
Eva L. Wells
Martin W. Knapp
1853 - 1901 Person Name: M. W. Knapp Author of "I Look for His Appearing" in Bible Songs Born: March 27, 1853, Albion, Michigan.
Died: December 7, 1901, Cincinnati, Ohio, of typhoid fever.
Buried: Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
At age 17, Knapp began studies at a Methodist college in Albion, Michigan. He worked on the family farm in the summer, studying Greek and Latin at night, and attending classes in Albion in the winter. In 1877, the Methodist Michigan Conference assigned him a circuit. He went on to a career in ministry, founding the magazine God’s Revivalist in 1888; the International Holiness Union and Prayer League in 1897; and God’s Bible School (later known as God’s Bible School and College) in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1900. His works include:
Christ Crowned Within, 1886
The Double Cure
Out of Egypt into Canaan, or Lessons in Spiritual Geography
Diary Letters; A Missionary Trip Through the West Indies and to South America
The River of Death and Its Branches
Pentecostal Preachers
Revival Kindlings, 1890
Revival Tornadoes; or, Life and Labors of Rev. Joseph H. Weber (McDonald, Gill & Company, 1890)
Impressions—How to Tell Whether They Are from Above or Below (Revivalist Publishing House; sixth edition, 1892)
Lightning Bolts from Pentecostal Skies; or, Devices of the Devil Unmasked, 1898
Holiness Triumphant, or, Pearls from Patmos, 1900
Bible Songs of Salvation and Victory, with R. E. McNeill (Cincinnati, Ohio: M. W. Knapp, circa 1902)
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Martin W. Knapp
