Francis H. Rowley
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| Born | July 25, 1854 |
| Died | February 14, 1952 (aged 97) |
| Occupation(s) | Baptist minister, animal welfare campaigner |
Francis Harold Rowley (25 July 1854 – 14 February 1952) was an American Baptist minister, animal welfare campaigner and hymn writer.
Biography
Rowley was born in
Rowley was a hymn writer best known for authoring the popular hymn I Will Sing the Wondrous Story.[2] It was composed by Rowley's associate Peter P. Bilhorn and was presented to Ira D. Sankey as a gift.[3] Sankey was impressed with the song and published it in Gospel Hymns and Sacred Songs and Solos, in 1887.[3][4]
He married Isa Amelia on June 11, 1878, they had four children.[1] An honorary Doctor of Divinity was given to him by the University of Rochester in 1895. In 1947, the Rowley School of Human Understanding at Oglethorpe University was established in his honour.[1] Rowley died in Boston, in 1952.[1]
Animal welfare
Rowley took interest in animal welfare and the humane movement. From 1892 to 1900, he was Secretary of the
Rowley acknowledged vegetarianism as an ethical idea but was not personally a vegetarian.[6][7] He admitted that "the less meat eaten the less the demand that creates the whole traffic in food animals fraught with its many cruelties."[7] Rowley's goal to prevent cruelty was the requirement by law that every animal killed for food would be rendered unconscious first before the knife was inserted. In 1915, through Rowley's influence, a building was made to house the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Angell Memorial Animal Hospital. He was President of the American Humane Education Society.[1] Rowley was President of both societies until his retirement in 1945. He was responsible for the passage of legislation toward slaughterhouse humane education and reform in Massachusetts.[1]
Rowley was Chairman of the Animal Protection Committee for the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety and vice-president of the American Society for the Humane Regulation of Vivisection.[1] In 1948, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals named the Rowley Memorial Hospital in Springfield, Massachusetts for him in 1948.[1]
Selected publications
- Human Vivisection: A Statement and An Inquiry (with John G. Shortall, 1900)
- A Christmas Conference (1910)
- The Humane Idea: A Brief History of Man's Attitude Toward the Other Animals (1912)
- Slaughter-House Reform in the United States and the Opposing Forces (1913)
- Slaughter House Reform (1914)
- The Gnat and the Camel (1920)
- The Teacher's Helper in Humane Education (1920)
- The Horses of Homer (1930)
- An International Appeal (1935)
Gallery
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For the Sake of a Veal Cutlet, published by Rowley in 1914 -
Francis H. Rowley and others, 1918 -
Newspaper article, 1920
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m The National Cyclopædia of American Biography, Volume 43. (1961). New York: James T. White & Company. pp. 206-207
- ISBN 978-0310517207
- ^ ISBN 978-0825442827
- ISBN 978-0-86554-948-7
- ^ ISBN 978-0271080093
- ISBN 978-0805738841
- ^ ISBN 978-0-415-62847-1
Further reading
- Janet M. Davis. (2016). The Gospel of Kindness: Animal Welfare and the Making of Modern America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-973315-6
- William J. Shultz. (1924). The Humane Movement in the United States, 1910-1922. New York.
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