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Robert Lowery (born Robert Lowery Hanks, [ 1 ][ 2 ] October 17, 1913 – December 26, 1971) was an American motion picture, television, and stage actor who appeared in more than 70 films. He was the second actor to play Batman, appearing as the character in the 1949 film serial Batman and Robin.
Robert Lowry, quoted in "Robert Lowry: Baptist Preacher and Hymn Writer" by J.H.Hall Although he considered preaching as his principal vocation, Lowry continued to write hymns and compose music. In 1864, while at Hanson Place, he wrote and composed what became perhaps his best-known hymn, " Shall We Gather at the River ". He wrote this during a heatwave which accompanied an epidemic in the ...
Robert Lowery. Actor: House of Horrors. Robert Lowery was born Robert Larkin Hanks in Kansas City, Missouri, the only living child of Roscoe Hanks, noted Kansas City attorney and oil investor; and Leah Thompson, concert pianist and organist. He attended local Kansas City schools and graduated from Paseo High School in 1931 with a record as an accomplished athlete. He played with the old Kansas ...
- October 17, 1913
- December 26, 1971
The hymn “Shall we gather at the river” was written one afternoon in July, 1864, when was pastor of the Hanson Place Baptist Church, Brooklyn, N.Y. The weather was oppressively hot, and the author was lying on a lounge in a state of physical exhaustion. He was almost incapable of bodily exertion, and his imagination began to take itself wings.
Born Robert Larkin Hanks in Kansas City, Missouri, Lowery grew up on Wayne Avenue near the long-demolished Electric Park. Lowery"s father was a local attorney and oil investor who worked several years for the Pullman Corporation as a railroad agent. His mother, Leah Thompson Hanks, was a concert pianist. Education
Robert Lowry was born in Philadelphia, PA, on Mar. 12, 1826, and educated at Bucknell University where he graduated with high scholastic honors in 1854. Afterward, he served as a Baptist minister, first at West Chester, PA, near Philadelphia, from 1854 to 1858, then in New York City, NY, from 1859 to 1961, and beginning in 1861 with the Hanson Place Baptist Church in Brooklyn, NY.
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Lowry, Robert, 1826-1899. Birth Year: 1826. Death Year: 1899. Robert Lowry was born in Philadelphia, March 12, 1826. His fondness for music was exhibited in his earliest years. As a child he amused himself with the various musical instruments that came into his hands. At the age of seventeen he joined the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia ...
