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James Yeames

1834 - 1931 Person Name: Rev. James Yeames Author of "What Sounds are Those?" in The Glorious Cause

Mary J. Willcox

1835 - 1919 Author of "Morning Star Hymn" in Missionary Hymnal

Carl Friedrich Paulus

1843 - 1893 Person Name: C. F. Paulus Translator of "Zions Wacht" in Lobe den Herrn!

Max Schneckenburger

1819 - 1849 Author of "Watch on the Rhine" in The Chapel Hymnal

1791 - 1875 Person Name: Chas. J. Sprague Translator of "The Watch on the Rhine" in The Male Chorus No. 1 Sprague, Charles. (Boston, Massachusetts, October 22, 1791--January 22, 1875, Boston). A Unitarian layman. Although a businessman without an education he wrote much verse which brought him considerable reputation and requests for poems to celebrate special occasions. One of them was read before the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Cambridge in 1829, and was re-published, with minor alterations, a few years later in Calcutta by a British officer, as his own work. A collection of his poems was published in 1841, and an enlarged edition in 1850. A number of his shorter poems are given in Putnam's Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith, and a hymn attributed to "C. Sprague" is included in Hedge and Huntington's Hymns for the Church of Christ, 1853, beginning "O Thou, at whose dread name we stand." --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Nathaniel Barnaby

1829 - 1915 Person Name: N. Barnaby Author of "The soldier keeps his wakeful watch" in Jubilate Deo Barnaby, Sir Nathaniel, C.B., Director of Naval Construction in Her Majesty's Service, born at Chatham in 1829, has been for many years interested in Christian education, and is Superintendent of the Baptist Sunday School at Lee, in Kent. He is the author of several hymns composed for use in the school at Lee. Of these, one beginning “To Jesus, our Captain, to Jesus, our King," and another, "The soldier keeps his wakeful Watch," composed to the German tune, "The Rhine-Watch," are in W. R. Stevenson's School Hymnal, Lond., 1881. His hymns are spirited and popular. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M. A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

E. Brock

Author of "Make Jesus King" in Towner's Male Choir Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 Combined

G. Tabor Thompson

Author of "They Hover Near" in Spiritualist Hymnal Thompson, G. Tabor. (19th century). Little information has been available on this author, except that he succeeded J.H. Burke as song leader under A.B. Simpson at the New York Gospel Tabernacle about 1890. --Paul Milburn, DNAH Archives