Born: August 7, 1868, Mecklenburg, Schwerin, Ger
many. Died: February 20, 1953, Pasadena, Califor
nia.
Lehman emigrated to America with his family at age
four, settling in Iowa, where he lived most of
childhood.
Lehman studied for the ministry at Northwestern
College in Naperville, Illinois, and pastored at
Audubon, Iowa; New London, Indiana; and Kansas Ci
ty, Missouri. The majority of his life was devoted
to writing sacred songs; his first was written
while a pastor in Kingsley, Iowa, in 1898. He
wrote and published hundreds of songs, and com
piled five song books. In 1911, he moved to Kansas
City, where he helped found the Nazarene Publish
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