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E. A. Hoffman
1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Author of "My Jesus is Able to Save" in Bright Beautiful Bells 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
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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)
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E. A. Hoffman
B. B. Beall
1874 - 1945 Composer of "[From danger and doubt, from sorrow and fear]" in Bright Beautiful Bells Benjamin Burke (B. B.) Beall, was born on May 25, 1874, Dallas, Georgia. Benjamin graduated in music and elocution from the Texas Musical Institute. He ran the B. B. Beall publishing company in Douglasville, Georgia. He died on October 7, 1945, in Douglasville, Georgia.
Some of his publications:
Bright Beautiful Bells (Birmingham, Alabama: B. B. Beal & Company, 1900)
Gems for the Sunday Schools (Douglasville, Georgia: B. B. Beall & Company, 1902)
Lasting Songs, B. B. Beall et al (Douglasville, Georgia: B. B. Beall & Company, 1910)
NN, Hymnary editor. Source: www.hymntime.com/tch/
B. B. Beall
