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Short Name: James Rowe
Full Name: Rowe, James, 1865-1933
Birth Year: 1865
Death Year: 1933

Pseudonym: James S. Apple.

James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works.

Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)


Tunes by James Rowe (19)sort descendingAsInstancesIncipit
[After a while, our sky will be bright]James Rowe (Composer)4
[At the ending of our earthly story]James Rowe (Composer)251312 17651 13533
[Bright is the path that I tread today]James Rowe (Composer)4
[Does the world your soul oppress?]James Rowe (Composer)212356 53253 12356
[He was burdened with age, bent with sin and care]James Rowe (Composer)3
[I have had a talk with Jesus]James Rowe (Composer)3
[I live in sin no longer]James Rowe (Composer)255671 32617 76556
[I shall meet my Savior face to face]James Rowe (Composer)4
[I'll do what I can for thy glory, Lord]James Rowe (Composer)3
[Little travelers pure and bright]James Rowe (Composer)251156 11151 33225
[No longer fetters bind me]James Rowe (Composer)2
[O how sweet to know, while we toil below]James Rowe (Composer)2
[Rapture my heart is swelling]James Rowe (Composer)3
SAFETY (Smith)James Rowe (Composer)156535 65567 12767
[Sometime no parting will grieve us]James Rowe (Composer)2
[The Savior waits to take away]James Rowe (Composer)2
[The Savior's hand is clasping mine]James Rowe (Composer)251177 66551 71511
[Walking with my Savior here below]James Rowe (Composer)2
[Working and singing for Jesus all day long]James Rowe (Composer)2
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