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Charles M. Fillmore

1860 - 1952 Hymnal Number: d52 Author of "Tell mother I'll be there, in answer to her prayer" in Songs and Stories of Mother, Childhood, and Home Charles Millard Fillmore, 1860-1952 Born: July 15, 1860, Paris, Illinois. Died: September 17, 1952, Indianapolis, Indiana. Fillmore won a music scholarship at the Cincinnati College of Music, then taught for a year at Bath Seminary in Owingsville, Kentucky. He then traveled for about a year and taught singing classes in various parts of America. He then went for additional music studies in Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied for the ministry at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, graduating in 1890. He pastored in Lafayette, Indiana; Shelbyville, Indiana; was "State Evangelist" (for one year) in Ogden, Utah; Peru, Indiana; Carthage, Ohio; and Hillside Church, Indianapolis, Indiana. He was one of the editors of the temperance paper Clean Politics, and of The Musical Messenger. He wrote several hundred Gospel songs in his lifetime. --www.hymntime.com/tch

Matilda Betham-Edwards

1836 - 1919 Person Name: Matilda Edwards Hymnal Number: d47 Author of "My mother at the gate" in Songs and Stories of Mother, Childhood, and Home Born: March 4, 1836, Westerfield (near Ipswich), England. Died: January 4, 1919, Hastings, Sussex, England. [Matilda Betham Edwards (1836-1919)] Daughter of Edward Edwards, and cousin of Egyptologist Amelia B. Edwards, Matilda was educated in Ipswich and Peckham, and traveled extensively, especially in Germany and France. Her works include: The White House by the Sea, 1857 Dr. Jacob, 1864 Kitty, 1869 Poems, 1885 Lord of the Harvest, 1899 --www.hymntime.com/tch ============================== Edwards, Matilda Barbara Betham (Betham-Edwards), daughter of Edward Edwards, and cousin of Amelia B. Edwards, the Egyptologist, was born at Westerfield, near Ipswich, March 4, 1836. Miss Edwards is well known as the author of Kitty, The Sylvesters, and other stories. Her Poems were published in 1885. Her hymn for Children's Services, "God make my life a little light," in the Congregational Church Hymnal, 1887, first appeared in Good Words, 1873, p. 393, together with another hymn for children, "The little birds now seek their rest" (Evening). Several of her religious pieces have passed into devotional and other works. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

M. B. Williams

Hymnal Number: d45 Author of "My mother's Bible" in Songs and Stories of Mother, Childhood, and Home Milan Bertrand Williams; evangelist; fl. 1896-1910 LOC Name Authority Files

Fred S. Shepard

1840 - 1907 Hymnal Number: d55 Author of "Mother's prayers will follow thee" in Songs and Stories of Mother, Childhood, and Home

John S. Brown

Hymnal Number: d43 Author of "Are you that wandering child" in Songs and Stories of Mother, Childhood, and Home John S Brown USA. Thus far, John has evaded biographers. He may be Rev. John Stillman Brown of Kansas, but this is not verified. John Perry

Hezekiah Butterworth

1839 - 1905 Hymnal Number: d5 Author of "The bird with a broken wing" in Songs and Stories of Mother, Childhood, and Home Butterworth, Hezekiah, was born at Warren, Rhode Island, Dec. 22, 1839. He wrote The Story of the Hymns, American Tract Society, 1875. He is the author of "0 Church of Christ, our blest abode" (The Church) in Root's cantata, Under the Palms, and of "Jesus, I Thee believe" (Jesus All in All) in the cantata Faith Triumphant. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ========================= Butterworth, Hezekiah, was born at Warren, R.I., Dec. 22, 1839, and died in 1905. His hymn, "Little ones of God are we" (Christ's Lambs), in the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905, and other collections, is dated 1870. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

G. Tabor Thompson

Hymnal Number: d40 Author of "Yes, I'll meet my sainted mother" in Songs and Stories of Mother, Childhood, and Home 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

Jerome McCauley

Hymnal Number: d25 Author of "Meet Mother in the Skies" in Songs and Stories of Mother, Childhood, and Home

J. E. Carpenter

1813 - 1885 Hymnal Number: d13 Author of "Do they see me at home" in Songs and Stories of Mother, Childhood, and Home Carpenter, Joseph Edwardes, PH.D., journalist, compiler of popular songs and ballads, dramatic writer and author of songs and hymns, was born in London, Nov. 2, 1813, and died in London, May 6, 1885. For a short time he was on the staff of some local journals in Leamington. His works, original and compiled, number nearly 20. These include his Songs: Sacred and Devotional, 1866, and from this volume his hymns are taken. Dean Alford included his “Lord and Father of creation" (Holy Matrimony) in The Year of Praise, 1867. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)