Charles Frederick Weigle

Charles Frederick Weigle was an American evangelist, preacher, gospel songwriter, and music teacher born in Lafayette, Indiana, in 1871. A 1963 biographical booklet prepared while he was still living records that he attended a Lutheran parochial school as a child and was converted at age twelve during revival meetings at a Methodist church. As a young man he worked in manufacturing before his interest in music led him to two years of study at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Gospel-wagon evangelism and mission Sunday school work in Cincinnati helped redirect his ambitions from professional singing toward full-time Christian ministry.

Weigle later preached among Friends communities and, shortly after 1901, served as pastor of a Friends congregation in Pasadena, California. He moved to Sebring, Florida, in 1915 and joined a Baptist church there in 1933 after a period of denominational study. His evangelistic ministry took him to revival meetings across the United States. In 1951, at Lee Roberson's invitation, he began a close association with Tennessee Temple Schools in Chattanooga, where a music center was later named for him.

Weigle wrote both the text and music of the 1932 gospel song commonly titled No One Ever Cared for Me Like Jesus. Other songs associated with him include Living for Jesus, A Garden of Roses, and I Am Glad I Came Home. Later biographical sources credit him with more than one thousand gospel songs. He died in Chattanooga in 1966.