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William J. Kirkpatrick
1838 - 1921 Person Name: William James Kirkpatrick Composer of "[The press was great, the throng was wild]" in The Cyber Hymnal William J. Kirkpatrick (b. Duncannon, PA, 1838; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1921) received his musical training from his father and several other private teachers. A carpenter by trade, he engaged in the furniture business from 1862 to 1878. He left that profession to dedicate his life to music, serving as music director at Grace Methodist Church in Philadelphia. Kirkpatrick compiled some one hundred gospel song collections; his first, Devotional Melodies (1859), was published when he was only twenty-one years old. Many of these collections were first published by the John Hood Company and later by Kirkpatrick's own Praise Publishing Company, both in Philadelphia.
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John W. Beebe
1853 - 1938 Author of "Made Whole" in The Cyber Hymnal John W. Beebe,was born in Milford, Delaware on August 3, 1853. He moved to Indiana in 1873. He moved to Kansas in 1878 but returned to Anderson, Indiana in 1894 where he served as deputy recorder for two years and then as bookkeeper at the First National Bank of Elwood. He was author of Prairie Flowers (G. W. Crane & co., printers, Topeka, Kan. 1891) a book of poetry. He died in Elwood, Indiana June 10, 1938.
Dianne Shapiro, from "Indiana Authors and Their Books 1917-1966" by David Eugene Thompson (Crawfordsville, IN Wabash College, 1974) accessed online at http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/inauthors/view?docId=encyclopedia/VAA5365-02.xml;chunk.id=ina-v2-entry-0164;toc.depth=1;toc.id=ina-v2-entry-0164;brand=ia-books;doc.view=0;query=&text1=mary%20hagler&field1=text&hit.rank= 3/14/2020)
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