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William T. Sleeper
1819 - 1904 Person Name: William W. Sleeper Composer of "[Faith of our fathers, living still]" in Worship and Song Sleeper, W. T. is given in I. D. Sankey’s Sacred Songs & Solos, 1881, as the author of “A ruler once came to Jesus by night” (Need for the New Birth).
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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William T. Sleeper (1819-1904)]
Born: February 9, 1819, Danbury, New Hampshire.
Died: September 24, 1904, Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Sleeper attended Phillips-Exeter Academy, the University of Vermont, and the Andover Theological Seminary. After ordination, he conducted home ministry work in Massachusetts and Maine. He later became pastor of the Summer Street Congregational Church in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he served over 30 years. His works include:
The Rejected King, and Hymns of Jesus, 1883.
-- www.hymntime.com
William T. Sleeper
Gabriel Davis
1768 - 1824 Person Name: Davis Composer of "WHITTEMORE" in The Gospel Psalmist
Gabriel Davis
Norman Cocker
1889 - 1953 Person Name: Norman Cocker, 1889 - 1953 Composer of "RYBURN" in The Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada
Norman Cocker
F. A. Blackmer
1855 - 1930 Composer of "[Faith of our fathers! living still]" in Carols of Hope Blackmer, Francis Augustus. (Ware, Massachusetts, February 17, 1855--October 8, 1930, Somerville, Massachusetts). Advent Christian musician. His parents, Augustus and Jane Blackmer, were among those caught up in the excitement of the Millerite Movement. One son, Fred, became an Advent Christian minister. Francis, with a talent recognized at an early age, consecrated his own life to Christian service as a musician. He was immersed in baptism at the Adventist campmeeting in Springfield, Massachusetts, by Elder Miles Grant.
His early years were spend in central Massachusetts, his schooling at Wilbraham Academy. He was largely self-taught in harmony and musical composition. He wrote the words and music to his first gospel song, "Out on the fathomless sea," at the age of sixteen. Altogether he wrote over 300 gospel songs about the Second Coming, witnessing and working for the Lord, and praises to God's Holy Name. A few of these have circulated widely outside his own denomination. His final text, "I shall see him, And be like him," came when he was so weak that his friend, Clarence M. Seamans, had to supply the music. He used the pseudonym, A. Francis, with some of his early songs.
Blackmer's first anthology was The Gospel Awakening, (1888). Subsequent gospel songbooks with which he was associated were: Singing by the Way (1895), Carols of Hope (1906), The Golden Sheaf, No. 2 (1916), and Songs of Coming Glory (1926).
Most of his adult life was spent in Somerville, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, where he had a prosperous piano business. In the 1890s, his "Francis A. Blackmer Pianos" were made for him by the Washington Hall Piano Company of Boston. Later, his "Good as Gold Pianos" were manufactured by the Christman Piano Company of New York City and shipped directly to his customers throughout New England.
In Somerville, Blackmer served as choirmaster and song-leader in the Advent Christian Church for many years. He was also an elder of the church until his death. From 1914 until his death, he was songleader at the mid-summer Alton Bay Campmeeting on Lake Winnepesaukee, New Hapshire. There his High Rock Hill was both a salesroom and a summer cottage over the years. He was a member of the board of directors of the campmeeting association for several years. Very popular were his singing sessions on the campground square between suppertim and evening services, and a final sing into the small hours of the night following the final service of the campmeeting.
--Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives
F. A. Blackmer
Charles Harford Lloyd
1849 - 1919 Person Name: C. H. Lloyd, Mus. Doc. Composer of "FAITH OF OUR FATHERS" in Hymns for the Children of the Church Born: October 16, 1849, Thornbury, Gloss, England.
Died: October 16, 1919, Slough, England.
Buried: Windsor Cemetery, Windsor, Berkshire, England.
Lloyd attended Thornbury Grammar School and Rossall School, and was a Scholar of Magdalen School, Hertford College, Oxford (BMus 1871, BA 1872, MA 175, DMus 1891). He served as organist at Gloucester Cathedral (1876); Christ Church, Oxford (1882, succeeding Samuel Wesley); precentor of Eton College (1892); organist of the Chapel Royal (1914); and editor of Church Hymns (1903).
Sources:
Frost, p. 680
Music:
Credo Domine
Lundy
Sacramentum Unitatis
Savile
St. Frideswide
http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/l/l/o/lloyd_ch.htm
Charles Harford Lloyd
J. C. Jones
Person Name: Parch J. C. Jones (Cyf.) of "Faith of Our Fathers!" in Old and New Welsh and English Hymns
J. C. Jones
Michael Hay
1953 - 1999 Person Name: Mike Hay, 1953-1999 Author (vs. 3) of "Faith of Our Fathers" in One in Faith
Michael Hay
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