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E. E. Hewitt
1851 - 1920 Author of "Shall I Turn Back" in The Finest of the Wheat No. 2 Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds.
Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
E. E. Hewitt
John J. Hood
b. 1847 Person Name: J. J. H. Arranger of "[Lost, lost on the mountains of sin and despair]" in The Finest of the Wheat No. 2 Born: 1847, Scotland.
Died: After 1929 (he was in the 1930 census).
Hood ran a Gospel music publishing business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from as early as 1875 to at least 1913.
--www.hymntime.com/tch
John J. Hood
