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Stephen Jenks
1772 - 1856 Composer of "COMMUNION" in The Church Hymnal Born: March 17, 1772, Glocester, Rhode Island.
Died: June 3, 1856, Thompson, Ohio.
Buried: Maple Grove Cemetery, Thompson, Ohio.
During his life, Jenks moved from town to town, living in Ridgefield and New Canaan, Connecticut; Pound Ridge, New York; and Providence, Rhode Island; finally settling in Thompson, Ohio, in 1829. After moving to Ohio, he became a farmer and a maker of percussion instruments. His works include:
The New-England Harmonist (Danbury, Connecticut, 1799)
The Musical Harmonist (New Haven, Connecticut, 1800.
The American Compiler, with Elijah Griswold (Northampton, Massachusetts, 1803)
The Delights of Harmony (New Haven, Connecticut, 1804)
The Delights of Harmony; or, Norfolk Compiler (Dedham, Massachusetts: 1805)
Additional Music, to the Delights of Harmony
The Delights of Harmony; or, Union Compiler, 1806
The Jovial Songster (Dedham, Massachusetts: 1806)
The Hartford Collection of Sacred Harmony, with Elijah Griswold and John C. Frisbie (Hartford, Connecticut: 1807)
The Royal Harmony of Zion (Dedham, Massachusetts: 1810)
The Christian Harmony (Dedham, Massachusetts: 1811)
The Harmony of Zion; or, Union Compiler (Dedham, Massachusetts: 1811)
The Whistle (Dedham, Massachusetts: 1811)
--www.hymntime.com/tch
Stephen Jenks
William A. Hawley
1870 - 1929 Person Name: Hawley Author of "There is a safe and secret place" in Songs of Zion Enlarged Born: Circa 1870, Campbellford (or Belleville), Ontario, Canada.
Died: August 29, 1929, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
By age 11, Hawley was the organist at his local Methodist church in Campbellford, and was leading the choir by age 16. He studied medicine briefly in Toronto, then went to the Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He evidently injured his hand, cutting short a promising musical career, and he worked as a piano tuner instead. However, for several years he served as organist at the First Baptist Church in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. It was there he joined the Salvation Army (SA); he later worked with the SA in Winnipeg and Calgary, and wrote a number of SA songs.
--www.hymntime.com/tch
William A. Hawley
E. A. Hoffman
1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Composer of "[There is a safe and secret place]" in Sifted Wheat Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873.
Mary Louise VanDyke
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Hoffman, Elisha Albright, author of "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?" (Holiness desired), in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1881, was born in Pennsylvania, May 7, 1839.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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E. A. Hoffman
Christopher Tye
1497 - 1572 Composer of "WINCHESTER OLD" in Hymns of the Kingdom of God Tye, Christopher, MUS. D., born at Westminster in the reign of Henry VIII. He was celebrated as a musician, and was granted the degree of MUS. D. at Cambridge in 1545. He was musical tutor to King Edward VI., and organist of the Chapel Royal under Queen Elizabeth. Besides composing numerous anthems, he rendered the first fourteen chapters of the Acts of the Apostles into metre, which were set to music by him and sung in Edward 6th's Chapel, and published in 1553. He died circa 1580.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Christopher Tye
E. J. Hopkins
1818 - 1901 Person Name: E.J. Hopkins Composer of "ST. HUGH" in Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship Dr Edward John Hopkins MusDoc United Kingdom 1818-1901. Born at Westminster, England, the son of a clarinetist with the Royal Opera House orchestra, he became an organist (as did two of his brothers) and a composer. In 1826 he became a chorister of the Chapel Royal and sang at the coronation of King William IV in Westminster Abbey. He also sang in the choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral, a double schedule requiring skill and dexterity. On Sunday evenings he would play the outgoing voluntary at St. Martin’s in-the-field. He left Chapel Royal in 1834 and started studying organ construction at two organ factories. He took an appointment at Mitcham Church as organist at age 16, winning an audition against other organists. Four years later he became organist at the Church of St. Peter, Islington. In 1841 he became organist at St. Luke’s, Berwick St., Soho. Two Years later he was organist at Temple Church, which had a historic organ (built in 1683). He held this position for 55 years. In 1845 he married Sarah Lovett, and they had four sons and five daughters. He was closely associated with the Bach Society and was organist for the first English performances of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. In 1855 he collaborated with Edward Rimbault publishing “The organ, its history and construction” (3 editions 1855-70-77). In 1864 he was one of the founders of the “College of organists”. In 1882 he received an honorary Doctorate of Music from the Archbishop of Canterbury. He composed 30+ hymn tunes and some psalm chants, used by the Church of England. He died in London, England.
John Perry
E. J. Hopkins
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