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Wilhelm A. F. Schulthes

1816 - 1879 Composer of "LAMBETH" in Hymns of Grace Wilhelm August Ferdinand Schulthes Germany 1816-1879. Born at Hesse Castle, Germany, son of a German army officer, he was raised Lutheran, but turned to Roman Catholicism around 1852. He directed the Brompton Oratory choir (1852-1872). He taught music at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Roehampton (1868-1879). He also wrote poetry. No information found regarding family or other life events. He died at Bois-de-Colombes, France. John Perry

Flavil Hall

1876 - 1952 Arranger of "[Why do we mourn departing friends]" in Perfect Praise

Joseph Sieboth

Person Name: W. Sieboth Composer of "PEACE" in Church Hymnal

Abner Kneeland

1774 - 1844 Person Name: Kneeland Alterer of "Why should we mourn departing friends" in Hymns Kneeland, Abner, born in 1774, was noted for his religious changes, most of which may be traced through his hymns. He contributed 147 pieces to the American Universalist's Hymns composed by different Authors, 1808; and also edited The Philadelphia Hymn Book, 1819, and Hymns for the Use of those who are Slaves to no Sect, in 1834. In 1836 he underwent a trial at Boston for blasphemy. He died in 1844. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (190 ============================== Kneeland, Rev. Abner. (Iowa, 1774--1844, Salubria, Iowa). A Universalist miniter, one of the editors of the collection Hymns composed by different Authors, by order of the General Convention of Universalists of the New England States, 1808, to which he contributed 138 hymns, of poor quality. He resigned from the Universalist ministry in 1829 and became lecturer to a society of Freethinkers in Boston, and began publication of a periodical called the Investigator. In 1833 he was indicted on a charge of blasphemy and served a prison sentence. On his release he returned to Iowa, then a territory, and established a free-thinking colony which he called Salubria. His hymn beginning "Mediator, Son of God" is included in Church Harmonies: New and Old, 1895. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Robert Boyd

Person Name: Boyd Composer of "NEW ORLEANS" in The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion (New ed. thoroughly rev. and much enl.)

John Clements

Person Name: J. C. Author (chorus) of "Some Glad Day" in The Gospel Trumpeter

V. Paul Jones

Composer of "[Why do we mourn departing friends]" in The Gospel Trumpeter Early 20th Century

E. Heritage

Person Name: E. Heritage, Philadelphia Composer of "BEREAVEMENT" in The Social Harp Elphrey Heritage lived in Philadelphia, was associated with the publisher S. C. Collins of that city, and composed hymn tunes that appeared inter alia in The Hesperian Harp (1848), The Timbrel of Zion (1853), and The Social Harp (1855). He was the brother of Jason Heritage of New Jersey. (Source: Daniel W. Patterson's "Introduction" to the 1973 reprint of The Social Harp, xii-xiii)

Anonymous

Author of "Why Do We Mourn?" in Hymns of Grace 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.