1830–1912

Introduction

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Born: March 10, 1830, Fair­field Coun­ty, Ohio.

Died: Feb­ru­ary 10, 1912, De­la­ware, Ohio.

Buried: Oak Grove Ce­me­te­ry, De­la­ware, Ohio.

Pseudonyms

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Biography

Tullius was the son of James O’Kane and Ju­lia A. Will­iams, hus­band of Lau­ra A. Ea­ton, and fa­ther of Ed­ward O’Kane.

He re­ceived his AB de­gree from Ohio Wes­ley­an Uni­ver­si­ty in 1852, and his AM de­gree in 1855.

Immediately up­on gra­du­ation, he ac­cept­ed a po­si­tion at the uni­ver­si­ty as a math tu­tor. Ev­en though he was on­ly a tu­tor, the stu­dents al­ways re­ferred to him as Pro­fes­sor.

In ad­di­tion, in re­cog­ni­tion of his mu­sic­al abi­li­ties, O’Kane was for years the mu­sic­al pre­cen­tor in the dai­ly cha­pel de­vo­tions. He al­so or­gan­ized and ran a cho­ral so­cie­ty at the school, and was the first mu­sic­al ins­truc­tor in the Ohio Wes­ley­an Fe­male Col­lege.

In 1857, O’Kane be­came a school prin­ci­pal in Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio.

In 1864, he went to work for the Phil­ip Phil­lips pi­ano com­pa­ny. He stayed with the com­pa­ny un­til it moved to New York in 1867.

He then moved to De­la­ware, Ohio, and be­came a tra­vel­ing sales­man for the Smith Am­eri­can Or­gan Com­pany of Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts.

During that time, he vis­it­ed con­fer­enc­es and Sun­day school con­ven­tions, and be­came well known through­out the area.

Works

Sources

Lyrics

  1. All Glo­ry to Je­sus
  2. All the World to Me
  3. At the East­ern Gate
  4. Beautiful Ri­ver, The
  5. Carry Us Through
  6. Christian’s Miss­ion, The
  7. Christmas-Tide
  8. Come to the Fount­ain
  9. Earth Has Its Ma­ny Hours of Plea­sure
  10. Father, at Thy Foot­stool
  11. Follow Me
  12. For Je­sus We Are Sol­diers
  13. Hail to the Sav­ior
  14. Have You Heard of Those Hea­ven­ly Man­sions?
  15. Jesus Died on Cal­va­ry
  16. Jesus Now Of­fers For­give­ness of Sin
  17. Jesus, While on Earth I Jour­ney
  18. Just Be­yond
  19. Let Not Your Heart Be Trou­bled
  20. Linger No Long­er
  21. My Beau­ti­ful Home
  22. My Mo­ther’s Pray­er
  23. Oh, How Pre­cious
  24. Oh, to Love Thee
  25. Our Eter­nal Home
  26. Redeemed
  27. Rejoice, Re­joice
  28. Stranger at the Door, The
  29. Striving to Do My Mas­ter’s Will
  30. Savior to You, The
  31. Still March­ing On
  32. Sure Foun­da­tion, The
  33. Sweeping Thro’ the Gates
  34. They Are Com­ing
  35. Thy Love Abound­ing, Our Steps Sur­round­ing
  36. Treasures of Hea­ven, The
  37. We’ll Praise the Lord
  38. Washed in the Blood of the Lamb
  39. White Fields, The
  40. Work! Work To­day
  41. Yet There Is Room

Music

  1. Bangladesh
  2. Behold, a Stone in Zi­on Laid
  3. Brovary
  4. Burkina Fa­so
  5. Church of God, Awake
  6. Ever to the Right
  7. Glorious Fount­ain
  8. Go Work in My Vine­yard
  9. Hallowed Spot, The
  10. Home Ov­er There, The
  11. Is It for Me?
  12. Kramarik
  13. Krasnoyarsk
  14. Lake Oro­ville
  15. Lead Me to Je­sus
  16. Make Me a Work­er for Je­sus
  17. Mighty Rock, Whose Tow­er­ing Form
  18. More Like Je­sus
  19. On Jor­dan’s Stor­my Banks
  20. On the Shoals
  21. Opening Hymn
  22. Ring the Bell Soft­ly
  23. There Is Com­ing a Day
  24. Waiting at the Door
  25. Wall Street
  26. Yerevan
  27. Zaporizhzhia
  28. Zion De­liv­ered