Person Results

Robert Claire Loveless

b. 1923 Person Name: Robert C. Loveless Hymnal Number: 71 Author of "Every Day With Jesus" in Youth Sings

Stanton W. Gavitt

1911 - 1985 Hymnal Number: 109 Author of "Things Are Different Now" in Youth Sings Born: August 26, 1911, Westerly, Rhode Island. Died: April 19, 1985, Old Orchard Beach, Maine.

1894 - 1982 Hymnal Number: 128 Author of "Why Do I Sing About Jesus" in Youth Sings Little is known about Albert Allen Ketchum, except that he was once a student at Moody Bible Institute, in Chicago, and lived at one time in Long Beach, California. While attending Moody in the early 1920′s, he wrote the words and music for a gospel song called, "Why Do I Sing About Jesus?" It was one of 12 or 15 songs he submitted to Harry Dixon Clarke for publication. --wordwisehymns.com/2010/02/12/ ============== In the 1940′s, Ketchum was associated with Delco Products Co. in Los Angeles, CA, and lived in nearby Long Beach, but little else is known about him, including the time and place of his death, other than that he flourished in the early twentieth century. --hymnstudiesblog.wordpress.com/2009/08/13

E. Edwin Young

1895 - 1995 Hymnal Number: 65 Author of "Joy!" in Youth Sings

Eduardo J. Lango

Hymnal Number: 59 Author of "I'll Be Somewhere List'ning" in Youth Sings 20th Century

Phillip Stanley Kerr

1906 - 1959 Person Name: Phillip S. Kerr Hymnal Number: 55 Author of "In Love With The Lover Of My Soul" in Youth Sings

Howard L. Brown

1889 - 1965 Hymnal Number: 25 Author of "Follow, I Will Follow Thee" in Youth Sings Howard L. Brown was director of California Christian Endeavor (international church youth organization) between 1930-1940. In those years this was a large organization, especially in LA-Orange County area. He wrote many spiritual songs along with his wife Margaret.

Oliver Cooke

Person Name: O. Cooke Lewisham Hymnal Number: 47 Author of "I Know A Fount" in Youth Sings Oliver Cooke was born in Berkshire, England, in 1873, as the son of a farm labourer. When his family moved to London, Oliver was able to study music at the London College of Music and earned a certificate in organ playing. At the Salvation Army, he learned to play a cornet, and later became first a bandmaster and then a songster leader. He had his first song published in The War Cry in 1888 and for the next 50 years he continued writing songs for The Musical Salvationist , a publication for songster brigades (choirs). Cooke died in 1945. Heather Allington, The Salvation Army Oshawa