1905 - 2002 Author of "O the Rose of Sharon" Merrill Everett Dunlop
Born: May 9, 1905, Chicago, Illinois.
Died: June 15, 2002.
Dunlop was educated at Central YMCA College, Chicago (BA) and the Moody Bible Institute (graduated 1926). He played the piano and organ at Moody Church (1921-24), and served as director of music at the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (1926-53). Burton Bosworth was his father-in-law.
Dunlop wrote over 700 hymns and Gospel songs, and works including:
Songs of a Christian, 1937
New Songs of a Christian, 1941
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