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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Arranger of "[Christ Jesus went a building to prepare]" in Songs of Salvation and Service. Revised Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke ============ Hoffman, Elisha Albright, author of "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?" (Holiness desired), in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1881, was born in Pennsylvania, May 7, 1839. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ==============

John McPhail

Person Name: J. McP. Arranger of "[Christ went a building to prepare]" in Burning Bush Songs No. 1

E. A. Fergerson

Person Name: Rev. E. A. Fergerson Author of "Not Made With Hands" in Burning Bush Songs No. 1

James D. Vaughan

1864 - 1941 Arranger of "[My Saviour's gone a mansion to prepare]" in Crowning Praises Vaughan, James D(avid); b. Dec. 14, 1864, between Lawrence Co. and Giles Co., TN; d. Feb. 9, 1941, Lawrenceburg, TN; music publisher, composer and compiler of gospel songs in shape notation