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D. E. Dortch

1851 - 1928 Person Name: David E. Dortch Hymnal Number: d169 Author of "Prepare, prepare, prepare" in Soul Songs Born: March 5, 1851, Theta, Tennessee. Died: November 9/11, 1928, Tennessee. Buried: Rose Hill Cemetery, Columbia, Tennessee. Dortch was teaching music in Maury, Tennessee, in 1880, and was working as an evangelist by 1886. His works include: Tidings of Joy (Columbia, Tennessee: 1878) National Tidings of Joy (Nashville, Tennessee: National Baptist Convention of America, 1878) Gospel Melodies, with William Dale & Charles Pollock (Nashville, Tennessee: Cumberland Presbyterian Publishing House, 1890) Spirit and Life, with Edmund Lorenz (Dayton, Ohio: Christian Publishing Association, 1893) Choice Songs (Nashville, Tennessee: National Baptist Convention of America, 1894) Gospel Voices (Nashville, Tennessee: South-Western Publishing House, 1895) Gospel Voices No. 3 (Columbia, Tennessee: David E. Dortch, 1902) Hymns of Victory, Parts 1 and 2 (Columbia, Tennessee: Dortch Publishing Company, 1905) Happy Greetings to All (Charlotte, North Carolina: Dortch Publishing Company, 1916) © Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

H. A. Mullennix

Hymnal Number: d144 Author of "Be happy today" in Soul Songs

F. L. Snyder

Hymnal Number: d13 Author of "Be a Daniel" in Soul Songs

Mrs. E. C. Ellsworth

Person Name: E. C. Ellsworth Hymnal Number: d209 Author of "There'll be joy, by and by" in Soul Songs Late 19th Century

Mrs. M. E. Willson

1842 - 1942 Person Name: M. E. Bliss-Willson Hymnal Number: d192 Author of "Saved by his blood" in Soul Songs Mate E. Bliss Willson, sister of P. P. Bliss.

James A. Brown

Hymnal Number: d81 Author of "Saved by believing" in Soul Songs

John S. Davis

1813 - 1882 Hymnal Number: d77 Author of "I am trusting, fully trusting" in Soul Songs

Lou Singletary Bedford

1837 - 1945 Person Name: Lou S. Bedford Hymnal Number: d195 Author of "The lost soul's lament" in Soul Songs Mrs. Lou Singletary Bedford, author, born in Feliciana, Graves county, Kentucky, 7th April 1837. Her father was a teacher, and his little daughter placed n his school at six years of age. she had no special love for books, except for reading, spelling and grammar, but her ambition kept her at the head of most of her classes. she completed her course of study in Clinton Seminary. After leaving school she taught for a year or two. In 1857 she became the wife of John Joseph Bedford, a friend and associate of her childhood. There were six children born to them. Mrs. Bedford's literary career has in great measure become identified with Texas, her adopted home. From her sixteenth year she continued to write until her marriage, after which her pen was silent for nearly fifteen years. She has published two volumes of poetry."A Vision, and Other Poems" (Cincinnati and London, 1881) and "Gathered Leaves" (Dallas, 1889). Mrs. Bedford has for years contributed to various periodicals. She resided in El Paso, Texas where she was social and literary editor of the El Paso "Sunday Morning Tribune." From American Women: fifteen hundred biographies, with over 1,400 photos: a comprehensive encyclopedia of the lives and achievements of American women during the nineteenth century (Rev. ed.) by Frances E. Willard an Mary A Livermore (New York/Chicago/Springfield, OH: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1897

J. M. Stillman

1834 - 1917 Hymnal Number: d93 Author of "More like Jesus" in Soul Songs JAIRUS MAXSON STILLMAN, Mus. Doc., Professor of Music in Milton College. As a composer he has had many valuable contributions, especially to sacred music, but, while his work in that direction has been most important, his labors have been more especially directed to the educational side of the art. For the past fifteen years, with brief interruptions, he has filled his present collegiate chair, and his work prior to the acceptance of this position was most active, varied and successful. Mr. STILLMAN was born February 20, 1834, in Alfred, Allegany Co., N.Y., the third in order of birth of the six children of Maxson and Lydia (CHAPMAN) STILLMAN. His father, a tenor singer of talent, had not only for many years led the choir of the large church at Alfred of which he was a member, but had taught singing schools in many places surrounding his home. His son inherited great aptitude for music, and at the age of ten years could read plain music at sight. He accompanied his father to singing schools, and made rapid progress in the mastery of the principles of music. He attended the singing classes in Alfred Academy. He is the associate author of "Good-Will for Sabbath Schools," "The Cluster," and "Anthem Treasures," the latter two being well-known and popular anthem books. He has also composed a large number of pieces for other anthem and Gospel hymn books, and a number of songs published in sheet music form. At Chicago he acted as one of the judges, with Prof. T. Martin TOWNE and others, in selecting from 700 original pieces of music, and in critically editing those which should be published in the work called "International Lesson Hymnal No. 1," published by David C. COOK. In 1884 an excellent article on "Church Music and How to Sustain it," written by Dr. STILLMAN, appeared in the "Seventh-day Baptist Quarterly." Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin" (c)1901; pp. 2-4.