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Thomas Jackson

1715 - 1781 Person Name: Thomas Jackson, 1715-1781 Composer of "BYZANTIUM (JACKSON)" in Singing the Faith Jackson played the organ at Newark, England (1768-81). His works include: Twelve Psalm Tunes and Eighteen…Chants, circa 1780 --www.hymntime.com/tch

Robert Prescott Stewart

1825 - 1894 Person Name: Robert P. Stewart Composer of "MOUNT CALVARY" in The Methodist Hymnal

A. Brooks Everett

1828 - 1875 Person Name: Dr. A. B. Everett Composer of "BARCLAY" in Hymn and Tune Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Round Note Ed.) Asa Brooks Everett MusDoc USA 1828-1875. Born in VA, he planned to be a doctor, but decided to study music instead. He studied in Boston for four years and also in Leipzig, Germany for four years.. He composed many gospel tunes and edited “The Sceptre” a New York publication. His brothers, Benjamin and Leonard, were also composers. He and Leonard organized a musical instruction system in Richmond, VA, in the 1850s. By 1861, 50 teachers and singing schools were representing them and using their publications. He died in Nashville, TN. John Perry

George B. Arnold

1832 - 1932 Composer of "ARNOLD" in The Evangelical Hymnal George Benjamin Arnold, born at Petworth, Sussex, England, Dec. 22, 1832. Pupil of S. S. Wesley; Mus. Doc., Oxford, 1861; was organist of St. Columba's College, 1852, of St. Mary's Church, Torquay, 1853, of New College, Oxford, 1860, of Winchester Cathedral 1865. Works: Ahab oratorio, Exeter Hall, London, 1863; The Second Coming of Our Lord, oratorio; The Song of David, cantata; Sennacherib, do., Gloucester, 1883; The Forty-third Psalm; communion Service; Te Deums; Anthems and Motest; Concerted vocal music; Songs, Pianoforte music. Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by John Denison Camplin, Jr. and William Foster Apthorp (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888)

Jacob Kimball

1761 - 1826 Person Name: Kimball Composer of "PLAINFIELD" in The American Vocalist Kimball, Jacob. (Topsfield, Massachusetts, February 15, 1761--July 24, 1826, Topsfield). He graduated from Harvard in 1780, studied law, taught school, and tried to make a living at various other occupations, with small success except in the field of music where he was regarded as an outstanding singer, teacher, and composer of his period. He edited Rural Harmony (Boston, 1793) which he followed with Essex Harmony (1800), and Essex Harmony, Part II (1802), which included the only tunes of his own composition which can now be identified as his, except those in the popular Village Harmony (1795) the later editions of which, down to 1821, were probably edited by him. There is evidence that he also wrote poetry, including a number of hymns, some of them perhaps anonymous ones, otherwise unknown, included in the above-mentioned song books. The one hymn which can be attributed to him with assurance is his excellent metrical version of Psalm 65 which Jeremy Belknap included in his Sacred Psalmody (1795), entitled "A New Version" and beginning "Thy praise, O God, in Zion waits." The only other hymn by an American author in Belknap's collection is Mather Byles' "When wild confusion wrecks the air," republished in 1760. See: Jacob Kimball: A Pioneer American Musician, Essex Institution Historical Collections, XCII, no. 4. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives