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I. McPherson

Person Name: Ian MacPherson Author of "If I but knew Thee as Thou art" in Redemption Hymnal

W. W. Wallace

Composer of "[We may not climb the heav'nly steeps]" in Riches of Grace

1832 - 1899 Person Name: M. F. Clare Author of "Before the throne of God above" in The New Children's Hymnal [Cusack, Mary Francis., also known as Sister Mary Francis Clare, Religious of the Order of Poor Clares, Margaret Anna Cusack, C. F. Cusack, M. F. Cusack] Sister Mary F. Clare, of Kenmare, has written several hymns of merit, including:— 1. Before the throne of God above. Angels. 2. Hark, the angels bright are singing. Easter. 3. Jesus was once a little child. Jesus the Holy Example. Of these Nos. 1, 3 are in Mrs. Brock's Children's Hymn Book, 1881, and No. 2 in W. G. Horder's Hymn Lover, 1889. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ================= Clare, Mary F., p. 1556, ii. In the Standard of June 7, 1899, is the following: "June 5, at Leamington, Margaret Anna Cusack, only daughter of the late Samuel Cusack, M.D., of Dublin, aged 70." In the same paper on the following day, this lady is identified as "Sister Mary F. Clare," the Nun of Kenmare, who, on leaving the Roman Catholic Church, lectured extensively on Protestantism. The hymns noted on p. 1556, ii., are from her Hymns for Children by a Religious of the Holy Order of the Poor Clares, London, 1862. Two others in 1862 have passed into the Congregational Book of Praise for Children, 1881, "O gentle Jesus, had I been" (Christ blessing Children), and “When Jesus was on earth He used" (Jesus, the Healer). [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Oliver Huckel

1864 - 1940 Author of "O mind of God, broad as the sky" in The School Hymnal Born: January 11, 1864, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Died: February 3, 1940, Orlando, Florida. Buried: Second Congregational Church Cemetery, Greenwich, Connecticut. An 1887 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Huckel was known as the class poet, and spoke at the university’s celebration of the birth of American president George Washington, and at the 1887 graduation ceremony. He went on to study at Harvard University and Andover Theological Seminary, Newton, Massachusetts, and in 1890 was ordained a Congregational minister, and received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree from Boston University. He then pastored in Weymouth, Massachusetts, until 1894, when he went abroad to study at the University of Berlin and Oxford University. He returned to America in 1896, serving briefly in Amherst, Massachusetts, then moving to the Associate Congregational Church, Baltimore, Maryland, where he stayed the next two decades. In 1917, he moved to the Second Congregational Church in Greenwich, Connecticut, and retired in 1905. He also served as chaplain at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland;, Cornell University; and the University of Virginia. --www.hymntime.org/tch

Rolland W. Schloerb

1893 - 1993 Person Name: Rolland W. Schloerb, 1893- Author of "O God, Thy Summons Still Is Heard" in Christian Worship Of Chicago, Illinois. --Five New Hymns on the City , 1954. Used by permission.

John Anketell

1835 - 1905 Author of "Lord Jesus, on the Holy Mount" in The Hymnal and Order of Service Anketell, John, M.A., was born at New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A., March 8, 1835, and educated at Yale College, and the University of- Halle-Wittenberg, Prussian Saxony. He was ordained deacon of the American Episcopalian Church in 1859, and priest in 1860. He founded (Stanza John's (American) Episcopal Church in Dresden in 1869. Subsequently he became Professor of Hebrew and Greek Exegesis in the Seabury Divinity School. Mr. Anketell published in 1889 Gospel and Epistle Hymns for the Christian Year, N.Y. He has also translated about 120 hymns from the German, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, French, Spanish, Danish, Italian, and Syriac, which were published in the Church Review, N.Y., 1876 and later, and in other periodicals. A few of those from the Latin are noted in Duffield's Latin Hymn-Writers, &c, 1889. Mr. Anketell's original hymns number about 150. Both these and his translations are worthy of notice. He died March 9, 1905. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Benjamin Waugh

1839 - 1908 Person Name: Rev. B. Waugh Author of "Now let us see Thy beauty, Lord" in Hymnal Amore Dei Waugh, Benjamin, was born at Settle, in Yorkshire, Feb. 20, 1839, and educated for the Congregational Ministry at Airedale College, Bradford. He has held pastorates at Newbury, Berkshire, Greenwich, and New Southgate. He has been for several years editor of The Sunday Magazine, and a large contributor to its pages. He has published (1) The Goal Cradle, Who rocks it; (2) Sunday Evenings with my Children; (3) The Children's Sunday Hour; (4) The Child of the English Savage; (5) Imperial Legislation and Street Children. Mr. Waugh's hymns have appeared from time to time in The Sunday Magazine, and have not been separately published. Those which have come into common use include:— 1. Jesus, the Friend of friendless men. Jesus the Sinner's Friend. 1874. 2. 0 happy pair of Nazareth. The Child Jesus. 3. O let me see Thy beauty. Lord. The Beauty of the Lord. This is given in a revised form as “Now let us see Thy beauty, Lord," in Horder's Congregational Hymns, 1884. Mr. Waugh's hymns are for children's use, and are exceedingly fresh and unconventional. Several others of merit might be selected from the Sunday Magazine with advantage to children's hymnody. [Rev. W. Garrett Horder] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================= Waugh, B., p. 1241, ii. He has published a collection of 93 original Hymns for Children, 1892. Nos. 1, 3 of those noted here are in the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905; No. 2 is in Worship Song, 1905. 1. Heavenly Father, I would serve Thee. [Childlike Service.] Written 1890; 1892, as above, p. 64. 2. I'll come to Thee, 0 Jesus Christ, [Following Jesus.] Written 1879; first published in the Sunday Magazine in 1882. 3. Where is Jesus, little children. [Jesus ever present.) Written 1890; 1892, p. 54; also in School Hymns, 1891, No. 422. Mr. Waugh's work at p. 1241, ii., as The Good Cradle, &c, should be The Goal Cradle, &c. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)