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Jonathan C. Woodman
1813 - 1894 Person Name: J. C. Woodman Composer of "STATE STREET" in The Mennonite Hymnary, published by the Board of Publication of the General Conference of the Mennonite Church of North America
Jonathan C. Woodman
Sylvanus Billings Pond
1792 - 1871 Person Name: Sylvanus Billings Bond (1815-1871) Composer of "FRANKLIN SQUARE" in Carmina Sanctorum, a selection of hymns and songs of praise with tunes
Sylvanus Billings Pond
Leonard Marshall
1809 - 1890 Person Name: L. Marshall Composer of "PRAYER" in The Gospel Psalmist Marshall, Leonard. (Hudson, New Hampshire, May 3, 1809--July 1, 1890, Hudson, N.H.) Baptist. Voice pupil of John Paddon of London and Charles Zenner, harmonist. Tenor soloist of Handel and Haydn Society ca. 1844-1850. Music director at Twelfth Congregational Church, Boston, Massachusetts, 1836-1957; Bowdoin Square Baptist Church, ca.1867-1870; Harvard Street Baptist Church, ca.1870-1875, and other Boston churches. Chorus director at Tremont Temple, 1857-1867. Author of popular songs, "Don't Give Up the Ship" and "The Mountaineer," and of thirteen church music books; published The Sacred Star hymnal, 1861, Boston. Wrote words of Easter hymn commencing, "Jesus Christ, our precious Savior," and hymn "Ever gracious, loving Savior, Come and bless us from on high."
--E.F. Quinn, DNAH Archives
Note: Typewritten copy of obituary from the Boston Evening Transcript 3 July 1890, is in the DNAH Archives.
Leonard Marshall
Lewis Renatus West
1753 - 1826 Person Name: L. R. West Composer of "TYTHERTON" in Worship Song 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)
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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
Lewis Renatus West
Leonard Swain
1821 - 1869 Author of "Give to the winds thy fears" in Sacred Songs for School Use Swain, Leonard, D.D., was born at Concord, New Haven, Feb. 26, 1821, and educated at Dartmouth College and Andover. In 1847 he became a Congregational minister at Nashua, New Haven; and in 1852 of Central Church, Providence, Rhode Island. He died July 14, 1869. His hymns, "My soul, it is thy God" (The Christian Race), and "My soul, weigh not thy life" (The Good Fight of Faith), appeared anonymously in The Sabbath Hymn Book, 1858, and their authorship has only recently been determined. The second hymn is the more widely used of the two. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Leonard Swain
Samuel Stanley
1767 - 1822 Composer of "SHIRLAND" in Notes of Triumph See Stanley, 1767-1822
Samuel Stanley
William Jones
1726 - 1800 Composer of "CLAPTON" in New Christian Hymn and Tune Book Born: July 30, 1726, Lowick, Northamptonshire, England.
Died: January 6, 1800, Hollingbourne, Kent, England.
Pseudonym: Jones of Nayland.
Jones was educated at Charterhouse and University College, Oxford. He became Vicar of Bethersden, Kent (1764); Pluckley, Kent; and Paston, Northamptonshire; perpetual Curate of Nayland, Suffolk (1777); and Rector of Hollingbourne, Kent (1798). He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1775. His works include:
The Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity, 1756
Fairchild Discourses, 1775
Physiological Disquisitions, 1781
A Treatise on the Art of Music, 1784
Church Pieces for the Organ with Four Anthems in Score, 1789
Jones was a descendant of the Col. J. Jones, who was one of the signatories to the death warrant of King Charles I of England. He used to regularly observe January 30 as a day of fasting and humiliation for his ancestor’s sin.
Music:
ST. STEPHEN
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
William Jones
J. H. Deane
1824 - 1881 Person Name: J. H. Deane (1824-1881) Composer of "SIENNA" in Hymns of the Ages
J. H. Deane
Giovanni Paisiello
Person Name: G. Paisiello Composer of "VIGIL" in Sacred Songs for School Use
Giovanni Paisiello
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