Harry dixon loes biography
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When Harry Dixon Loes was born on 20 October , in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States, his father, Frederick "Fred" Loes, was 39 and his mother, Louisa Margaret Novak, was He married Garnet Cecil Leonard on 3 July , in Hamilton, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States in and United States in He died in February , in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of
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Harry Dixon Loes
Christian hymn writer
Harry Dixon Loes (October 20, – February 9, ) was an American composer and teacher, best known for his arrangement of the gospel song "This Little Light of Mine".[1][2] Loes was a prolific composer and hymn writer, hymnal editor, and music professor,[1] as well as musical director in several churches and an evangelist for more than a dozen years.[3]
Life
[edit]Harry Loes was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan[3][4] as the son of Fred Loes and Louise Novak Loes.[5] He was the musical director in several churches. Subsequently, Loes became involved in evangelistic work for more than a dozen years.[3] Afterwards he became a music teacher at the Moody Bible Institute in ,[6] where he worked until his death.[3] He adopted the middle name of "Dixon" as an homage to the former pastor of the Moody Church, Dr. A. C. Dixon.[5] In Loes married
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