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Charles E. Kettle

1833 - 1895 Composer of "WOOLWICH" in The Haverford School Hymnal Charles Edward Kettle, 1833-1895 Born: 1833, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England. Died: Circa February 1895, Steyning district, Sussex, England. As of 1881, Kettle lived in Hove, Sussex, where he was an organist. --www.hymntime.com/tch

Daniel Read

1757 - 1836 Composer of "LISBON" in The Otterbein Hymnal Daniel Read; b. 1757, Rehoboth, Mass.; d. 1837, New Haven, Conn.An American composer and a primary figure in early American classical music. He was one of the “Yankee Tunesmiths” (1st New England School of Music) when classical music was popular in Europe. Read was a private in Massachusetts militia and later a comb maker and owner of a general store in New Haven, CN. He was only the 3rd composer in the U. S. to put out a collection of his own music. His work, “The American Singing Book” went through 5 editions, making him the most popular composer in the nation. Others often plagarized his tunes in those days. Tunebook sales supplemented his general store income, including “The Columbian Harmonist” (3 volumnes) with 3 revisions, and “The New Haven Collection of Sacred Music” 1818. Read also published “The American Musical magazine” in 12 annual issues in 1786 and 1787. In later years he came to appreciate European music more and imitated that styling in devotional music. Some of Read's music is still being performed, and selections have been published in “The Sacred Harp”, 1991 Edition, and the “Stoughton Music Society” (Centennial Collection 1980). John Perry

Josiah Booth

1852 - 1930 Person Name: J. Booth Composer of "SWAINSTHORPE" in Church Hymns and Tunes Josiah Booth (27 March 1852 – 29 December 1929) was an English organist and composer, known chiefly for his hymn-tunes. See also in: Wikipedia

J. E. Sweetser

1817 - 1873 Composer of "OWEN" in The New Laudes Domini

Alexander Robert Reinagle

1799 - 1877 Person Name: A. R. Reinagle Composer of "BEN RHYDDING" in The Church Hymnary Alexander Robert Reinagle United Kingdom 1799-1877. Born at Brighton, Sussex, England, gf Austrian descent, he came from a family of musicians, studying music with his father (a cellist), then with Raynor Taylor in Edinburgh, Scotland. Reinagle became a well-known organ teacher. He became organist at St Peter’s Church, Oxford (1823-1853). He was also a theatre musician. He wrote Teaching manuals for stringed instruments as well. He also compiled books of hymn tunes, one in 1830: “Psalm tunes for the voice and the pianoforte”, the other in 1840: “A collection of Psalm and hymn tunes”. He also composed waltzes. In 1846 he married Caroline Orger, a pianist, composer, and writer in her own right. No information found regarding children. In the 1860s he was active in Oxford music-making and worked with organist, John Stainer, then organist at Magdalen College. Reinagle also composed a piano sonata and some church music. At retirement he moved to Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England. He died at Kidlington. John Perry

Lewis Renatus West

1753 - 1826 Person Name: Lewis Renatus West, 1753-1826 Composer of "WEST" in Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church Lewis Renatus West, born in London, May 3, 1753, and Moravian Minister at Tytherton, Wilts, from 1809 to his death, Aug. 4, 1826. --Excerpt from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ==================== Born: May 3, 1753. Christened: May 3, 1753, Fetter Lane Moravian church, London, England. Died: 1826, Tytherton (near Chippenham), Wiltshire, England. Buried: Moravian cemetery, Tytherton, Wiltshire, England. A Moravian minister, West taught in the Moravian school in Fulneck, Leeds; served as tutor and assistant minister in Bedford; assistant minister in Dublin; and minister in Gracehill, Northern Ireland; Mirfield; Bath; Bristol; and Tytherton. --www.hymntime.com

George Jarvis Geer

1821 - 1885 Person Name: G. Jarvis Geer Composer of "[MARSHALL]" in The Hymnal Born: February 24, 1821, Waterbury, Connecticut. Died: March 16, 1885, New York. Buried: Saint Paul’s Churchyard, Manhattan, New York. Geer graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut (1842), and the General Theological Seminary, New York (1845). He served as Rector of Christ Church, Ballston Spa, New York; Associate Rector of the Church of the Holy Apostles, New York (1859); and Rector of St. Timothy’s, New York (1866). He was the first president of the Free Church Guild of New York, and a member of the General Convention of 1874. He received the degree of S. T. D. from Columbia University, and of D.D. from Union in 1862. His works include: Tune-Book of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1848, with Bishop Bedell & Dr. Muhlenburg The Conversion of St. Paul (New York: 1871) --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Samuel Gee

1834 - 1892 Composer of "REVELATION" in Hymns of the Living Church Currently, our only data on Gee is that his music appeared in a late 19th Century English carol book. --www.hymntime.com/tch/ ============= Appointed as organist to Christ Church, Clapham The Musical Times, Volume 11 (July 1, 1864) ============ Samuel Gee, A.R.A.M., Principal of North Staffordshire School of Music The Scottish Prose Psalter