1859–1944

Introduction

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Born: June 11, 1859, near Har­ris­on­burg, Vir­gin­ia.

Died: 1944, Rock­ing­ham Coun­ty, Vir­gin­ia.

Buried: Day­ton Ce­me­te­ry, Day­ton, Vir­gin­ia.

Biography

John was the son of Jo­seph Bow­man and Sar­ah J. Flo­ry, and hus­band of Ma­ry E. Stov­er.

He be­gan stu­dy­ing mu­sic at an ear­ly age, and age 18, at­tend­ed his first nor­mal at New Mar­ket, Vir­gin­ia, con­duct­ed by Ben­ja­min Un­seld and P. J. Mer­ges.

He lat­er at­tend­ed other nor­mals and stu­died with ma­ny of Am­eri­ca’s fore­most teach­ers, in­clud­ing An­tho­ny Sho­wal­ter. It was from Sho­wal­ter’s South­ern Nor­mal Mu­sic­al In­sti­tute (SNMI) in Dal­ton, Geor­gia, that Bow­man re­ceived his di­plo­ma.

Bowman was an as­sist­ant teach­er at the SNMI, and lat­er op­ened his own Am­eri­can Nor­mal School of Music. As of 1904, he was liv­ing in Har­ris­on­burg, Vir­gin­ia, and was a stock­hold­er in the A. J. Sho­wal­ter Com­pa­ny, a Gos­pel mu­sic pub­lish­er.

Works

Sources

Lyrics

  1. Are You One of the Nine­ty and Nine?
  2. Are You Walk­ing in the Thor­ny Paths?
  3. Brother, Are You Walk­ing?
  4. Child, in Thy Days of Ten­der Youth
  5. Father, Ho­ly One, Bow Thine Ear
  6. I Am Cling­ing to the Bless­ed Cross
  7. I Am Cling­ing to the Rock
  8. I’m Wait­ing the Time When My Lord Shall Come
  9. In the Church Through Its Por­tals
  10. Jesus, Hear Me When I Cry
  11. Jesus Saved All Who Will­ing­ly Take Him
  12. Jesus Will Save You To­day
  13. Knowledge of Christ, The
  14. My Sav­ior Guides Me Day by Day
  15. O Father, Hear My Humb­le Pray­er
  16. O Je­sus, Take Me, I Come
  17. O Sin­ner, Why Tar­ry the Call to Obey?
  18. Prince of Peace, the Most Ho­ly, The
  19. Reapers Sing as They Toil, The
  20. Saving Faith in Him
  21. See the Migh­ty Ar­my Now Ad­vanc­ing
  22. Send the Mes­sage in­to All the World
  23. Shepherd’s Fold, The
  24. Some Day I’ll Meet My Bless­ed Lord
  25. Sweet the Ho­ly Name of Je­sus
  26. There’s a Beau­ti­ful Land Far Away
  27. They Cru­ci­fied My Sav­ior
  28. We Are March­ing Home
  29. When Hope Sings in the Storm
  30. When Je­sus Comes to Earth Again
  31. When the Bride­groom Com­eth
  32. When the Lord of Hea­ven and Earth Ap­pears
  33. When the Trum­pet Shall Sound
  34. Where Je­sus Dwells I Want to Be
  35. Working for Je­sus Our Lord
  36. Wrecks Along the Way, The

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