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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Author of "He Chastens But in Love" in Gathered Jewels No. 2 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) ==============
E. A. Hoffman

J. F. Disney

1852 - 1885 Composer of "[When life is full of bitter grief]" in Gathered Jewels No. 2 Born: Sep­tem­ber 27, 1852, Knox Coun­ty, Ohio. Died: March 13, 1885, Ab­er­deen, Mis­sis­sip­pi. Buried: Dis­ney Cem­e­te­ry, Five Cor­ners, Ohio. Son of Fred­er­ick and Har­ri­et Bar­ry Dis­ney, and bro­ther to Hen­ry Dis­ney, Ja­cob was ed­u­cat­ed in the lo­cal dis­trict school. He later at­tend­ed the nor­mal school un­der Pro­fes­sor John Og­den, in Worth­ing, Ohio, for al­most a year. In the sum­mer of 1879 he went to the Mu­sic­al Nor­mal school in Youngs­town, Ohio, un­der Pro­fes­sor N. Coe Stew­art, of Cleve­land, Ohio. He stu­died mu­sic for some years, and com­posed Wil­lie’s Fare­well, pub­lished in 1877, mak­ing him the first re­si­dent of Knox Coun­ty, Ohio, to write lyr­ics and mu­sic for a pub­lished song. --www.hymntime.com/tch/
J. F. Disney

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