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Joseph G. Fones

1828 - 1906 Person Name: J. G. Fones Hymnal Number: 92 Composer of "[Beautiful Zion, built above]" in Deseret Sunday School Songs

1825 - 1888 Hymnal Number: 13 Author of "Behold, 'Tis Eventide" in Deseret Sunday School Songs Born: January 27, 1825, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Died: January 9, 1888, Trenton, New Jersey. Hofford attended Lafayette and Princeton, where he graduated in 1849. He studied theology at the Princeton seminary for a year, and became principal of the Camden collegiate institute. While there, he organized a church at Beverly, New Jersey, being licensed by the Presbytery in Philadelphia in 1852. In 1855, he was ordained an evangelist in Burlington, New Jersey. In 1860, he began teaching at the Trenton Institute, and in 1863 took charge of a military institute at Allentown, Pennsylvania that was later incorporated as Muhlenberg College; he served there as a professor and later president. He taught and pastored at Camden and Beverly, New Jersey, and Doylestown, Pennsylvania (1868-78), then became pastor at Morrisville, Pennsylvania. --www.hymntime.com/tch

Harrison Millard

1830 - 1895 Person Name: H. Millard Hymnal Number: 13 Composer of "[Abide with me, 'tis eventide!]" in Deseret Sunday School Songs

Julia Hills Johnson

1783 - 1853 Person Name: Julia H. Johnson Hymnal Number: 116 Author of "The Joy and the Song" in Deseret Sunday School Songs

John M. Chamberlain

1844 - 1928 Person Name: J. M. C. Hymnal Number: 78 Author of "Marching Homeward" in Deseret Sunday School Songs

Charles Denney, Jr.

1849 - 1937 Person Name: Charles Denney Hymnal Number: 33 Author of "O Thou Kind and Gracious Father" in Deseret Sunday School Songs

Joseph J. Daynes

1851 - 1920 Person Name: Jos. J. Daynes Hymnal Number: 279 Composer of "[As the dew, from heav'n distilling]" in Deseret Sunday School Songs

Maxwell N. Cornelius

1842 - 1893 Person Name: Maxwell N. Cornelius, D.D. Hymnal Number: 293 Author of "Sometime We'll Understand" in Deseret Sunday School Songs Rv Maxwell Newton Cornelius DD USA 1842-1893. Son of a farmer, he started his career as a carpenter, then a building contractor. He married Mary E. Davinson. They had a daughter, Nellie G., who died in infancy. He had an accident, resulting in a leg amputation, after which he entered the ministry. Educated at the Vermillion Institute, Haynesville, OH, he then attended seminary there, 1867-1871, and was ordained in the Pittsburgh Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church USA. He served at the Oakdale Presbyterian Church, Oakdale, PA, the Presbyterian church in Altoona, PA, 1876-1885, in Pasadena, CA, 1885-1890, in San Francisco, 1890-1891, and at the Eastern Presbyterian Church, Washington, DC, until his death from pneumonia in 1893, a year after his wife's death. Both were buried in Poland, OH. John Perry

Maro Loomis Bartlett

1847 - 1919 Person Name: M. L. Bartlett Hymnal Number: 195 Composer of "[Are we sowing seeds of kindness?]" in Deseret Sunday School Songs Bartlett was born on October 25, 1847 in Browhelm, Ohio. He was a choral conductor, composed many popular tunes, and wrote several books on music. As of 1905, he was Director of the Des Moines, Iowa, College of Music. He died in 1919 in Des Moines, Iowa. Sources: Hughes, p. 307 Nutter, p. 453 Price, p. 195 © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch) ============= The publication Bartlett's Music Reader (1901) states that the editor, M.L. Bartlett, was "President of the Des Moines, Ia., Music College and formerly Teacher of Music in the Schools of New York City." This same M.L. Bartlett edited The Sunday School Serial. --