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Kenneth Herbert Wells
1895 - 1995 Author of "Life Begins at Calvary" Kenneth Herbert Wells, born May 21, 1895, Oklahoma Territory; died Aug.22, 1997, Whitefish, Montana. Clergy in the Church of the Nazarene. Taught at Taylor University, Upland, Indiana; the Bible Institute of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and the Chicago Evangelistic Institute. Married Eunice Oakes in 1918; she died in 1945. Married Lily Hedman in 1951; she died in 2004. After 1951, he and Lily were full-time evangelists for 22 years before retirement.
Kenneth and Lily had beautiful singing voices.
Melvin Carlson, Hymnary user
Kenneth Herbert Wells
M. M. Wells
1815 - 1895 Person Name: Marcus M. Wells, 1815-1895 Author of "Holy Spirit, Faithful Guide" in Hymnal of the Church of God Converted to Christianity as a youth at a mission in Buffalo, New York, Marcus Morris Wells (b. Cooperstown, NY, 1815; d. Hartwick, NY, 1895) spent most of his life near Hartwick as a farmer and maker of farm implements. He is remembered in hymnody for writing both the text and tune of "Holy Spirit, Faithful Guide." "On a Saturday afternoon, October 1858, while at work in my cornfield, the sentiment of the hymn came to me," writes Wells. "The next day, Sunday, being a very stormy day, I finished the hymn and wrote the tune for it and sent it to Prof. I. B. Woodbury." Isaac Woodbury was the editor of the New York Musical Pioneer, and the original text and tune were first published in that periodical's November 1858 issue.
Bert Polman
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Wells, Marcus M. Concerning this author and his hymn we have no information beyond the following facts:—
Holy Spirit, faithful Guide. [Whitsuntide.] Appeared in The Sacred Lute, by T. E. Perkins, N.Y., undated [1864], p. 373, with music. Both words and music are attributed therein to M. M. Wells. The hymn has since been repeated in several English and American collections, including I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1878. It is dated 1858.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
M. M. Wells
Seth Y. Wells
1767 - 1847 Person Name: Seth Young Wells Editor of "" in Millennial Praises
Seth Y. Wells
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