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Frances Weld Danielson

Author of "A Springtime Prayer" in Songs for Little People

1866 - 1943 Author of "'Tis God who sends the Spring" in A First Book in Hymns and Worship Buried: Harrison Cemetery, Wapello, Iowa. Leyda’s husband apparently had a publishing company in Wapello, Iowa, and (perhaps later) Chicago, Illinois. Her works include: Junior Hymns and Carols. A Book of Hymns and Services for the Junior Department, 1911 Carols: A Book of Songs and Services for the Beginners and Primary Grades of the Sunday School, 1914 Melodies; for Children’s Voices in the Home and Sunday School (Chicago, Illinois: Leyda Publishing Company, 1916) http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/l/e/y/leyda_if.htm

Frances Fagan

Author of "My Prayer" in Heart and Voice Fagan, Frances. In The Sunny Side, N.Y., 1875, two hymns which have come into use in Great Britain are signed "Fanny Fagan." These are:— 1. Mine be the tongue that always shrinks. Kindness. 2. The still small voice that speaks within. Conscience. Miss Fagan was a Sunday School Teacher in connection with Dr. W. H. Furness's Church at Philadelphia. Her hymns appeared in her Hymns for the Sunday School of the First Congregational Unitarian Church, Phila., 1866. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

L. H. C. Hölty

1748 - 1776 Person Name: L. H. Hölty Author of "Treue and Redlichkeit" in Kleiner Liederschatz Hölty, Ludwig Heinrich Christoph, son of P. E. Hölty, pastor at Mariensee on the Lcine, nenr Hannover, was born at Mariensee, Dec. 21, 1748. He entered the University of Gottingen, 1769; completed his course, Easter, 1772; and became a Candidate of Theology, but never obtained a charge. He died at Han¬nover, Sept. 1, 1776. His complete Gedichte, edited by his friend J. H. Voss, were published at Hamburg, 1783 (2nd ed. 1804). The only piece which can be called a hymn and has been translated into English is:— Ueb' immer Treu und Redlichkeit. Conduct of Life. First published in J. H. Voss's Musenalmanach, Hamburg, 1119, p. ill, in 9 stanzas of 4 lines, entitled "The old country¬man to his son." Included in the Oldenburg Gesang-Buch, 1791, No. 480. The translation are, (1) "Let truth and spotless faith be thine," in the Harp of Zion, ed. by Basil Woodd, 1833, &, 101; (2) “With honest heart go on your way," in Dawson's Psalms & Hymns 1846, No. 112. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ===================== Hölty, Ludwig H. C, p. 530, i. Concerning the translation of his hymn "Ueb' immer Treu," we note that No. 1 is found in the German Songster, Berlin, 1798, p. 13; No. 2 is by Joseph Gostick, in his Spirit of German Poetry, 1845, p. 139. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)