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Adam Geibel
1855 - 1933 Composer of "[We rally today to honor our King]" in Alleluia Born: September 15, 1855, Neuenheim, Germany.
Died: August 3, 1933, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Though blinded by an eye infection at age eight, Geibel was a successful composer, conductor, and organist. Emigrating from Germany probably around 1864, he studied at the Philadelphia Institute for the Blind, and wrote a number of Gospel songs, anthems, cantatas, etc. He founded the Adam Geibel Music Company, later evolved into the Hall-Mack Company, and later merged to become the Rodeheaver Hall-Mack Company. He was well known for secular songs like "Kentucky Babe" and "Sleep, Sleep, Sleep." In 1885, Geibel organized the J. B. Stetson Mission. He conducted the Stetson Chorus of Philadelphia, and from 1884-1901, was a music instructor at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind. His works include:
Evening Bells, 1874
Saving Grace, with Alonzo Stone (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Stone & Bechter, Publishers, 1898)
Consecrated Hymns, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1902)
Uplifted Voices, co-editor with R. Frank Lehman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1901)
World-Wide Hosannas, with R. Frank Lehman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1904)
Hymns of the Kingdom, co-editor with R. Frank Lehman et al. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1905)
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
Adam Geibel
Lycurgus L. Ford
b. 1855 Author of "We rally today" in Alleluia Son of Jesse Ford and Mary Powell, Ford was in Liberty Township, Hancock County, Ohio, in 1860. He married Avis (or Aris) M. Woodin on June 19, 1885 in Summit County, Ohio. By 1900, he was living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1904, Lycurgus is on the Faculty of the Northeast Manual Training School, as a math teacher. His works include:
When Ye Pray, 1915
John III Sixteen, 1916
Blossoms of Sorrow, 1916
Baby Mine, 1916
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
Lycurgus L. Ford
