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Free at Last

Author: James Rowe Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Having faith in Jesus I have looked above Refrain First Line: Free at last! O happy, happy day

[Having faith in Jesus, I have looked above]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: T. B. Mosley, Jr.; Zebbie Bush Used With Text: Free at Last

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Author: James Rowe Hymnal: The Song-Land Way #25 (1925) First Line: Having faith in Jesus, I have looked above Refrain First Line: Free at last! O happy, happy day Languages: English Tune Title: [Having faith in Jesus, I have looked above]

Free at last

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Harbor Bells #d26 (1925) First Line: Having faith in Jesus I have looked above Languages: English

Free at last, O happy, happy day

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Select Songs #d32 (1935) First Line: Having faith in Jesus I have looked above

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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Author of "Free at Last" 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)