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Person Name: C. S. B. Arranger of "[There is no King but Jesus] " in Service Songs for Young People's Societies, Sunday Schools and Church Prayer Meetings In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

Howard B. Grose

1851 - 1939 Author of "Christ Our King" in Service Songs for Young People's Societies, Sunday Schools and Church Prayer Meetings Born: September 5, 1851, Millerton, New York. Died: May 19, 1939, Ballston Spa, New York. Buried: Ballston Spa, New York. Grose attended the University of Chicago, Illinois, and the University of Rochester, New York (AB 1876, AM 1880). He was ordained a Baptist minister in 1883, and served at the First Baptist Church, Poughkeepsie, New York (1883-87) and the First Baptist Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1888-90). He also served as president of the University of South Dakota (1890-92), taught history at the University of Chicago (1892-96), was assistant editor of The Watchman in Boston, Massachusetts (1896-1900), and editorial secretary for the American Baptist Home Mission Society (1904-10), and edited the Missions journal for 23 years. He lived his later years in Mount Vernon, New York. His works include: The Endeavor Hymnal (New York: 1902) Aliens or Americans, 1906 The Incoming Millions, 1906 The Praise Book, with George B. Graff (Boston, Massachusetts: United Society of Christian Endeavor, 1906) Advance to the Antilles, 1910 Never Man So Spake, 1924 --www.hymntime.org/tch

John H. Maunder

1858 - 1920 Composer of "[The whole wide world for Jesus]" in Church Hymnal, Mennonite John Henry Maunder United Kingdom 1858-1920. Born at Chelsea, England,,the son of a carpenter, he attended the Royal Academy of Music. He began his career as a theatre composer, but later specialized in sacred music for the Anglican Church. He became an author and composer, as well as a musician. He was organist at St. Matthew’s, Sydenham (1876-77); St. Paul’s, Forest hill (1878-1879); and at churches in Blackheath and Sutton. He married Ellen Fanny Fulgoux Dakin, and they had a daughter, Winifred. He provided musical accompaniment for concerts in Albert Hall, and, in 1881, conducted the Civil Service Vocal Union. He wrote about 20 church anthems, 10 cantatas, several carols, tunes for around 30 hymns, 19 songs and ballads, 12 services and canticles, two operettas, and six instrumentals. His best known cantata was “Olivet to Calvary”. He was known for his good musical style and great technical facility. His compositions were full of melodic ideas and were written for ease of interpretation. He died at West Brompton, London, England. John Perry

J. Dempster Hammond

1841 - 1920 Person Name: J. Demster Hammond Author of "The Whole Wide World For Jesus" in Church Hymnal, Mennonite Born: May 9, 1841, Chenango County, New York. Died: December 3, 1920, Berkeley, California. John was the son of Stephen Yates Hammond (1809-1892) and Martha Adams Hammond (1809-1863), and husband of Sarah Elizabeth Powers Hammond (1843-1918). A minister like his father, he served in the Genesee (now Western New York) Conference, the Wisconsin & Nevada Conference, and the California Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (hymntime.com/tch)

Rosalee Elser

1925 - 2007 Person Name: Rosalee Elser, 1925- Arranger of "THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD" in Himnos de Vida y Luz

Catherine Johnson

Person Name: Cath. Johnson Author of "The Whole Wide World" in Redemption Songs

C. Johnson

Author of "The World for Jesus" in The Y.M.C.A. Hymnal

Charles Spurgeon Brown

1860 - 1943 Person Name: C. S. B. Arranger of "[There is no King but Jesus!]" in Junior Carols Brown’s works include: The King’s Praises (Boston, Massachusetts: United Society of Christian Endeavor, 1899) www.hymntime.com/tch/

Mrs. Herrick Johnson

1835 - 1907 Author of "The whole wide world" in Small Church Music Johnson, Catherine, wife of the Rev. Herrick Johnson, D.D., a Presbyterian minister in Chicago, is the author of “An earthly temple here we build" (Laying Foundation Stone of a Place of Worship), which in Hatfield's Church Hymns, N. Y., 1872, is dated 1866. Another hymn by this author is given in an abridged form in Stryker's Church Song, N. Y., 1889, as "The whole wide world for Jesus." Sometimes dated May 9, 1872. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ================= Johnson, Catherine, née Hardenbergh, p. 1575, i. Mrs. Johnson, daughter of John H. Hardenbergh, was b. at Auburn, N.Y., in 1835, and m. in 1860. Her hymn, "An earthly temple here we build," was written in Pittsburgh for the dedication of a church in 1866; and her "The whole wide world for Jesus," on May 9, 1872, for a meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of Baltimore. Her children's hymn, "We are so happy, God's own little flock," is widely used in America. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)