1842 - 1942 Author of "'Tis Sweet to Pray" in Fair as the Morning. Hymns and Tunes for Praise in the Sunday-School Edward Albert Barnes, born January 24 1842. He was a life long resident of Chicago and a prolifich hymn writer, and active in the American Temperance Movement.
Dianne Shapiro, from http://mms.newberry.org/html/BarnesE.html
E. A. Barnes