Julia Harriet Johnston, who was born on Jan. 21, 1849, at Salineville, OH, in Columbiana County. Her father was a minister and he mother was a poet. She began writing when she was nine years old but really started writing verse in high school. She lived in Peoria, Ill.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >
Translator: Carl Roehl
(no biographical information available about Carl Roehl.) Go to person page >
Display Title: O bleib' bei mir!First Line: O bleib' bei mir! der Heiland flehtTune Title: [O bleib' bei mir! der Heiland fleht]Author: Carl Roehl; Julia H. JohnstonDate: 1919
Display Title: O bleib' bei mir!First Line: O bleib' bei mir! Der Heiland flehtTune Title: [O bleib' bei mir! Der Heiland fleht]Author: Carl Roehl; Julia H. JohnstonDate: 1914
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