Author & Composer

Ralph E. Hudson

1843–1901 · Napoleon, Ohio · United States

A Union Army veteran of the Civil War, Hudson taught five years at Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio, then started his own publishing company there. A firm prohibitionist, he issued The Temperance Songster in 1886. He added the refrain and tune that turned Watts's Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed into At the Cross.

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Tune

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Lived

1843–1901

Hymnals

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