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John Davis Long

1838 - 1915 Person Name: John D. Long Author of "I would, dear Jesus, I could break" in Sunday School Service Book and Hymnal Long, Hon. John Davis (Buckfield, Maine, October 27, 1838--August 28, 1915, Hingham, Massachusetts, 1915). Harvard, A.B. 1857; L.L.D. 1880. He was Governor of Massachusetts, 1880-1883, and Secretary of the Navy, 1897-1902. A member of the First Parish (Unitarian) in Hingham, he wrote one hymn beginning "The evening winds begin to blow" which was included in The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914, but which has not passed into other books. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

E. Embree Hoss

1849 - 1919 Author of "O God, Great Father, Lord and King" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Hoss, Elijah Embree, D.D., Bishop of the Amer. Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Washington County, Tenn., April 14, 1849, and graduated at Emory and Henry College, Va., 1869, of which he was subsequently President. He was Professor in Vanderbilt University for some time, and from 1885 to 1890 editor of the Nashville Christian Advocate. His hymn, "O God, great Father, Lord and King " (Holy Baptism), was included in The Methodist Hymnal, N.Y., 1905. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ================ Born: April 14, 1849, Washington County, Tennessee. Died: April 23, 1919, Muskogee, Oklahoma. Buried: Maple Lawn Cemetery, Jonesborough, Tennessee; he was re-interred there in 1924, having originally been buried elsewhere. Hoss graduated from Ohio Wesleyan and Emory & Henry College, Virginia (1869). In 1870, he became an ordained minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He pastored in Knoxville, Tennessee (1870-72); San Francisco, California (1872-74); and Ashville, North Carolina. From 1876-81, he taught at Martha Washington College, Abingdon, Virginia, then became president of his alma mater, Emory & Henry College. He was also a professor of Church History at Vanderbilt University (1885-90), and edited the Christian Advocate in Nashville, Tennessee (1890-92). In 1902, he became the Methodist bishop of Dallas, Texas. His works include: Elihu Embree, Abolitionist, in Publications of the Vanderbilt Southern Historical Society (Nashville, Tennessee: University Press Company, 1897) --www.hymntime.com/tch

Ibrāhīm Baz Al-Haddad

1854 - 1923 Person Name: ابراهيم باز الحداد Author of "يا رب قدني كي أقود" in كتاب الترانيم الروحية للكنائس الإنجيلية إبراهيم باز الحداد

Charlotte Mellen Packard

Author of "For common gifts we bless thee, Lord" in Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book Packard, C. M., is the author of "O shadow in the sultry land," in the Unitarian Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, and the Hymn [& Tune] Book, &c, Boston, U. S., 1868. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

M. Franklyn

Author of "O God who is the breath of life" in CPWI Hymnal

John Humberger

Person Name: Rev. John Humberger Author of "Now say good night! O Father be " in Evangelical Lutheran hymnal b. Perry Co, Ohio, 1840. Ordained a Lutheran minister, 1865. Lutheran pastor (Ohio Synod) at Steubenville, Ohio. Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal 1908

E. Cronenwett

1841 - 1931 Person Name: Emanuel Cronenwett Author of "Of Omnipresent Grace I Sing" in American Lutheran Hymnal Cronenwett, Emmanuel, a Lutheran Pastor at Butler, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., contributed to the Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, Published by Order of the Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio and other States, 1880, in addition to 20 translations from the German, the following original hymns, some of which rank with the best in the collection:— 1. A holy state is wedded life. Domestic Worship. 2. Faith is wisdom from on high. Faith. 3. Heavenly Father, Jesus taught us. Prayer. 4. Lord, Thine omniscience I adore. Omniscience. 5. O Triune God, Thy blessing great. Domestic Worship. 6. Of omniscient grace I sing. Omniscience. 7. Of Zion's honour angels sing. Ordination. 8. The precepts of the word are pure. Holy Scripture. 9. The Spirit's fruits are peace and love. Fruits of the Spirit. 10. 'Tis a marvel in our eyes. Foundation Stone laying of a Church. 11. To Thee, our fathers' God, we bow. Domestic Worship. 12. Unto Caesar let us render. National Thanksgiving. 13. We have a sure, prophetic word. Holy Scripture. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Mabel N. McCaw

b. 1899 Person Name: Mabel Niedermeyer Author of "Our Gifts of Money" in Hymns for Primary Worship Niedermeyer, Mabel. (Bloomington, Illinois, March 13, 1899--?). Disciples of Christ. Illinois Wesleyan University, B.S. 1924; Yale Divinity School, M.A. 1926; Director of Religious Eduction., Bloomington, Ill., 1928-1936; National Director of Children's Work, United Christian Missionary Society, Indianapolis, 1936-1948. Married C.C. McCaw in 1948, widowed, 1978. Author of fourteen books for children and many children's songs. Her hymn "Our Church Proclaims God's Love and Care" is included in Hymns for Junior Worship (1940) and Christian Worship (1941); several hymns in Hymns for Primary Worship. --Jean E. Garriott, DNAH Archives

Edna A. Lambert

Author of "Behold His Cross Against the Sky" in Twelve New World Order Hymns Lambert, Edna A. Of Wellington, New Zealand, member of Kelburn Presbyterian Church. --The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives ============================= Edna A. Lambert is a resident of Wellington, New Zealand. She is a housewife with a husband and three children to look after. She finds time, however, to write hymns and poems which occasionally have been published in religious periodicals. She is the author of one of the Hymn Society's World Order Hymns. --Seven New Social Welfare Hymns, 1961. Used by permission.

Charles Edward York

1842 - 1908 Person Name: Charles E. York Author of "As Near the Wished for Port We Draw" in The Cyber Hymnal York, Charles Edward, M.A., b. in 1842, Chaplain Royal Marine Light Infantry; educated at Pembroke College, Oxford (B.A. 1864), and for sometime Chaplain in the Royal Navy, is the author of "As near the wish'd-for port we draw" (For Use at Sea), in the 1889 Supplemental Hymns to Hymns Ancient & Modern. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)