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William T. Sleeper
1819 - 1904 Person Name: W. T. Sleeper Author of "Out of My Bondage, Sorrow, and Night" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) Sleeper, W. T. is given in I. D. Sankey’s Sacred Songs & Solos, 1881, as the author of “A ruler once came to Jesus by night” (Need for the New Birth).
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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William T. Sleeper (1819-1904)]
Born: February 9, 1819, Danbury, New Hampshire.
Died: September 24, 1904, Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Sleeper attended Phillips-Exeter Academy, the University of Vermont, and the Andover Theological Seminary. After ordination, he conducted home ministry work in Massachusetts and Maine. He later became pastor of the Summer Street Congregational Church in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he served over 30 years. His works include:
The Rejected King, and Hymns of Jesus, 1883.
-- www.hymntime.com
William T. Sleeper
George C. Stebbins
1846 - 1945 Composer of "JESUS, I COME" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) Stebbins studied music in Buffalo and Rochester, New York, then became a singing teacher. Around 1869, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, to join the Lyon and Healy Music Company. He also became the music director at the First Baptist Church in Chicago. It was in Chicago that he met the leaders in the Gospel music field, such as George Root, Philip Bliss, & Ira Sankey.
At age 28, Stebbins moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he became music director at the Claredon Street Baptist Church; the pastor there was Adoniram Gordon. Two years later, Stebbins became music director at Tremont Temple in Boston. Shortly thereafter, he became involved in evangelism campaigns with Moody and others. Around 1900, Stebbins spent a year as an evangelist in India, Egypt, Italy, Palestine, France and England.
(www.hymntime.com/tch)
George C. Stebbins
George P. Simmonds
1890 - 1991 Person Name: Geo. P. Simmonds Translator of "Vengo, Jesús, a Ti" in El Himnario Used pseudonyms G Paul S., J. Paul Simon, and J. Pablo Símon
George P. Simmonds
William B. Boomer
1887 - 1924 Person Name: Gmo. B. Boomer Translator of "De servidumbre, noche y dolor" in El Himnario para el uso de las Iglesias Evangelicas de Habla Espanola en Todo el Mundo Chair of the hymnal committee for El Himnario: Para el uso de las iglesias evangelicas de habla española en todo el mundo (1931). Noted as "the veteran missionary to Chile" in the publisher's note in this hymnal.
William B. Boomer
Anonymous
Translator of "Out of My Bondage, Sorrow, and Night (De mi tristeza y esclavitud)" in Santo, Santo, Santo In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
Anonymous
Solomon L. Ginsburg
1867 - 1927 Person Name: Salomão Luiz Ginsburg Translator of "Triste e Sombrio Foi Meu Viver" in Hinário para o Culto Cristão Born in Poland in 1867, Ginsburg was a Baptist pastor and missionary to Brazil for thirty-five years. He wrote A Wandering Jew in Brazil: An Autobiography
Solomon L. Ginsburg
Ernesto Barocio
1876 - 1948 Translator of "Tal Como Soy, Escalvo Del Mal" in El Nuevo Himnario Popular (Edicion Revisada y Corregida) Ernesto Barocio Ondarza. Baptist minister born in Mexico.
Dianne Shapiro
Ernesto Barocio
