Mabel Johnston Camp › Texts

The Cyber Hymnal™, citing Hustad, Don­ald Paul, Dic­tion­a­ry-Hand­book to Hymns for the Liv­ing Church; Car­ol Stream, Il­li­nois: Hope Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1978, pp. 216-17, says:

     Born: No­vem­ber 25, 1871, Cha­nute, Kan­sas.

     Died: May 25, 1937, Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois.

     A bank­er’s daugh­ter, gift­ed pi­an­ist and sing­er, Ma­bel went to a girls’ school in Steu­ben­ville, Ohio. She mar­ried law­yer Nor­man H. Camp, and they be­came Chris­tians to­ge­ther at one of Dwight Moo­dy’s Bi­ble Un­ion class­es taught by Wil­liam New­ell. She and her hus­band were mem­bers of the Moody Me­mor­i­al Church.

It also lists 14 first lines of hymns she is said to have written, as well as links to hymns using three tunes she composed.