[Oh, many are the souls for which the Saviour died]

Composer (melody): E. A. Hoffman

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… Go to person page >

Harmonizer: Cornelius T. Dondore

Cornelius T. Dondore was born 18 July 1842 in Pennsylvania to a family of Alsatian extraction that had settled in Berks County during the Colonial era. Little has been discovered about his early life, but popular songs and piano works by C. T. Dondore appeared in advertisements in Buffalo, N.Y. newspapers as early as 1867, and in various midwestern cities over the next few years. Dondore conducted a choral concert in Findlay, Ohio on 21 March 1871. By 1872 he was dealing in pianos and organs from a store at 157 Summit Street in Toledo, Ohio, but by 1879 had moved to Findlay, Ohio where he lived off investments in real estate. Dondore suffered from unspecified ill health, and by 1890 had relocated to San Diego, California where he pursued fa… Go to person page >