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Emma C. Hewitt

b. 1850 Hymnal Number: 269 Author of "As Twilight Softly Falls" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: February 15, 1850, New Orleans, Louisiana. When Hewitt was three years old, her family moved to a farm in Rahway, New Jersey, later to Burlington, New Jersey, then to Camden. She lived there for many years, moving to West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the late 19th Century. She was a fluent French scholar, and had a knowledge of several other languages. She began writing short stories at such an early age that it was said she was "born with a pen in her hand." In 1884, she became a journalist, and worked for the Burlington, New Jersey, Daily Evening Reporter for some time. In 1885, at the request of the publisher of the Ladies’ Home Journal, she began a series of articles titled Scribbler’s Letters to Gustavus Adolphus. The next year she became associate editor of the journal, serving there four years. She regularly contributed sketches, short stories and articles on domestic topics to at least a dozen other periodicals, as well. Around 1895, she left the Ladies’ Home Journal and became associated with the Home Magazine in Washington, DC, and, after the death of her sister, with the monthly Leisure Hours in Philadelphia. Her works include: Ease in Conversation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1887); first appeared in the Ladies’ Home Journal under the title of Mildred’s Conversation Class Hints to Ballad Singers (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1889) Queen of Home (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1889) Corn Products Cook Book (New York: Corn Products Refining Company, circa 1900) --www.hymntime.com/tch

Lucy Randolph Fleming

Hymnal Number: 8415 Author of "Awake, O Earth" in The Cyber Hymnal

T. Bowman Stephenson

1839 - 1912 Person Name: Thomas Bowman Stephenson Hymnal Number: 6416 Author of "Sweetly Dawns the Sabbath Morning" in The Cyber Hymnal Stephenson, Thomas Bowman, D.D., LL.D., son of the Rev. John Stephenson, was born at Newcastle on Dec. 22, 1839, and educated at Wesley College, Sheffield, subsequently graduating at the University of London. In 1860 he entered the Wesleyan Ministry, and has since laboured in Norwich, Manchester, Bolton, and London. The great work of his life has been the establishment and maintenance of The Children's Home at Victoria Park, London, and its branches at Bolton, Birmingham, and the Isle of Man, and in Canada. Dr. Stephenson has written for Magazines and Reviews, and published a small work on Sisterhoods, and a Memorial Sketch of the late James Barlow. He has written several hymns, of which the following are most widely known:— 1. Fading like a lifetime ends another day. Evening. Written circa 1873, and published in The Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879, No. 487, in 2 stanzas of 8 lines. 2. Hear us, Saviour, bowed before Thee. Children's Hymn. Written for a Festival at the Children's Home, circa 1879. 3. 0 Father, Whose spontaneous love. Easter, or Missions. Appeared in The General Hymnary for Missions, &c, 1889, No. 266, in 9 stanzas of 4 lines. 4. Onward, o'er Time's great ocean. Life a Voyage. Written during a voyage across the South Sea. 5. Sweetly dawns the Sabbath morning. Sunday Morning. Written circa 1875, and published in The Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879, No. 504, in 4 stanzas of 8 lines. 6. This is the glorious gospel word. Jesus saves. Called forth by a religious Convention at Brighton, and published in The Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879, No. 314, in 5 st. of 8 1., and in The General Hymnary, 1889, No. 431, with an additional stanza (st. iv.). -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================ Stephenson, T. B. , p. 1092, ii. Dr. Stephenson was President of the Wesleyan Conference in 1891, and became warden of the Wesley Deaconess Institute in 1903. His hymn,"Lord, grant us like the watching five," is in The Methodist Hymn Book, 1904. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Nellie B. Sweets

Hymnal Number: 3613 Author of "Lead Me, Father" in The Cyber Hymnal

J. H. Saxton

Hymnal Number: 5989 Author of "See the Gold upon the Hills" in The Cyber Hymnal

Sethus Calvesius

1556 - 1615 Hymnal Number: 14171 Composer of "HEUT' TRIUMPHIERET GOTTES SOHN" in The Cyber Hymnal

Julian Kennedy Smyth

1856 - 1921 Hymnal Number: 8865 Composer of "VIGLIA" in The Cyber Hymnal

F. E. Blanchard

Hymnal Number: 858 Author of "The Church in the Village" in The Cyber Hymnal

H. H. Barstow

1866 - 1944 Person Name: Henry H. Barstow Hymnal Number: 6204 Author of "The Son of Man Goes Forth Today" in The Cyber Hymnal Barstow, Henry Hayden. (Rochester, NY, December 31, 1866--November 19, 1944). Presbyterian minister. the son of Homer A. and Isabelle Adgate Barstow, he was educated at Rochester University, A.B. 1893, and Auburn Theological Seminary, B.D. 1898. Rochester later honored him with a D.D. He served in pastorates at Caledonia, NY (1900-1907), Westminster Church, Rochester, NY (1913-1920), Calvary Church, Auburn, NY (1920-1934), Union Springs, NY (1934-1939), and the Federated Church, McLean, Tompkins County, NY (1939-1942). He married Submit Jameson Smith on December 12, 1899. For a time he edited Auburn Seminary's Chapel Bell. From 1907 to 1913, he edited publications of the New York Anti-Saloon League. From early school days, he wrote verse, both humorous and later religious. He also contributed articles to The Expositor and Church Management. Armin Haeussler, DNAH Archives