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George C. Stebbins

1846 - 1945 Person Name: Geo. C. Stebbins Composer of "[It's a bonnie, bonnie warl' that we're livin' in the noo]" in Sacred Songs and Solos 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)

John J. Hood

b. 1847 Composer of "[It's a bonnie, bonnie worl' that we're livin' in the noo]" in Singing on the Way Born: 1847, Scotland. Died: After 1929 (he was in the 1930 census). Hood ran a Gospel music publishing business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from as early as 1875 to at least 1913. --www.hymntime.com/tch

Mrs. J. G. Wilson

Person Name: Mrs. Rev. J. G. Wilson Composer of "[It's a bonnie, bonnie warl' that we're livin' in the noe']" in Praise in Song See Wilson, Emily D. (Emily Divine), 1865-1942.

William Mitchell

1793 - 1867 Person Name: Rev. W. Mitchell Author of "The Palace o' the King" in Sacred Songs and Solos Mitchell, William, born at Chester, Connecticut, Dec. 19, 1793, educated at Yale College. entered the Congregational Ministry in 1825, and d. at Corpus Christi, Texas, Aug. 1, 1867. To Pt. i. of Joshua Leavitt's Christian Lyre, 1830-1, he contributed “Servants of the Living God" (Christian Warfare); and to Pt. ii. "Jesus, Thy love shall we forget" (The Love of Christ). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)