$900

Colored Pencils on Antique Hymnal piece

image size 7.5” x 4.5” in a 8” x 10” handcrafted maple frame with turquoise inlay

Hymnal name Praise of His Glory Songs published bu God’s Bible School, Cincinnati, OH 1922. James Rowe (aka James S. Apple) {1865-1933} 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 10 years for the New York Central & Hudsn R.R. Co., and served for 12 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 verson with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations and other works.

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