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Lewis E. Jones
1865 - 1936 Author of "Onward, onward" in Greatest Hymns for use in the Churches Pseudonyms: Mary Slater
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Lewis Edgar Jones USA 1865-1936. Born in Yates City, IL, his family moved near Davenport, IA, where he lived on a farm until age 21. He went into business for awhile, and attended the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. He was a classmate of evangelist, Billy Sunday. After graduating, he worked for the YMCA in Davenport, IA; Fort Worth, TX (1915, as general secretary); and Santa Barbara, CA (1925 as general secretary). Hymn writing was his avocation, and he wrote 200+, advising that many came from pastors’ sermons. He married Lora May Wright (1872-1950), and they had a daughter, Frances Ellen (1897-1982). He died in Santa Barbara, CA.
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Lewis E. Jones
W. S. Marshall
Composer of "[Lo! the royal Harvest ripens]" in Joy Bells He composed tunes for gospel lyric writers.
John Perry
W. S. Marshall
Mary E. Kail
1828 - 1890 Author of "Lo! The Royal Harvest" in Joy Bells Mary Elizabeth Harper Kail, Circa 1828-1890
Born: 1827 or 1828, Washington, DC.
Died: January 28, 1890, Washington, DC, or Ohio.
Daughter of Andrew Harper and Mary McDermott-Roe (daughter of Cornelius McDermott-Roe, a laborer who worked for George Washington). Mary’s father died young, possibly of malaria, while Mary and her sister Virginia were children. Mary and Virginia moved together to Carroll County, Ohio, and in 1843 Mary married Gabriel Kail (1814-88). By 1878, Mary was editor of the Connotton Valley Times in Carroll County. In the late 1880s, Mary was a clerk for the United States Treasury Department; she lost that job in September 1885 due to a change in administration. Her works include:
Crown Our Heroes, and Other Poems, 1887
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
Mary E. Kail
