TINDLEY, CHARLES ALBERT

TINDLEY, CHARLES ALBERT. Gospel songwriter/Minister (7 July 1859 in Berlin, Maryland; 26 July 1933 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). He began his career as an itinerant preacher and camp-meeting singer in Maryland. He studied for the ministry at a divinity school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and through a correspondence course from the Boston [Massachusetts] Theological Seminary. Sometime during the late 1870s he settled in Philadelphia and there in 1902 founded the East Calvary Methodist Episcopal...