Born: De­cem­ber 23, 1865, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Died: Oc­to­ber 24, 1935, Brook­lyn, New York.

Lerman came to Amer­i­ca as a child, and was a mem­ber of the Ol­iv­et Me­mor­i­al Church of New York Ci­ty. He played the or­gan there (1880-1908), and lat­er at the Sixth Av­e­nue Bap­tist Church, Bo­rough Park Christ­ian Church, and Fourth Av­e­nue Meth­od­ist Church, all in Brook­lyn. He wrote a con­sid­er­a­ble amount of church and Sun­day School mu­sic, and served as mu­sic­al ed­it­or for the Tull­ar-Mer­e­dith Com­pa­ny of New York Ci­ty, and the The­o­dore Press­ure Com­pa­ny of Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia.

Sources

Music

1. Corwin
2. God with Us
3. Hallelujah! Christ Is Risen
4. Hark! The Springtide Breezes
5. Hark, the Tramp of Coming Legions
6. Joy Dispels Our Sorrow
7. Resurrection Morn So Fair
8. ’Tis Christmas Day