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Alfred J. Gentry

Hymnal Number: 216 Composer of "[Come, Thou Fount of ev'ry blessing]" in Deseret Sunday School Songs

Inez Robinson Preece

Hymnal Number: 296 Composer of "[Hear the mighty throng]" in Deseret Sunday School Songs

Joseph G. Fones

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

1855 - 1936 Person Name: Margaret Haycraft Hymnal Number: 32 Author of "Come With Tuneful Voices" in Deseret Sunday School Songs Haycraft, Margaret Scott, née MacRitchie, born at Newport Pagnell, Bucks, now (1906) resides at Bournemouth. She contributes to various periodicals, has written many services of song, and several vols. of prose and verse. At the request of the Rev. C. Bonner she contributed the following (with a few shorter pieces) to the Christian Endeavour Hymnal, 1896, the Sumday School Hymnary, 1905, and the Junior Hymnal, 1906. 1. Bless the Lord for ever, Still his praise prolong. Praise to God. 1896, No. 16. 2. Green the hills and lovely. Boyhood of Jesus. Written 1904; 1905, No. 201. 3. In golden light of early days. Children's Praises. 1906, No. 58. 4. Let there be light at eventide. Parting Hymn. 1896, No. 165. 5. Thou art my Shepherd, Caring for all my need. Ps. xxiii. This is in W. B. Bradbury's New Golden Shower, 1866, p. 107, and Clarion, 1867, p. 219, marked as by Miss Thalheimer (in Hymns and Choral Songs, Manchester, 1904, No. 207, as "O God, my Shepherd"). Mrs. Haycraft revised sts. i., ii., and wrote an original final st. This is the Sunday School Hymnary text, 1905. [ Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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

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

Ophelia G. Adams

1856 - 1949 Person Name: Mrs. Ophelia G. Adams Hymnal Number: 256 Author of "Sometime, somewhere" in Deseret Sunday School Songs Ophelia G. Adams was born in 1856 (nee Ophelia G. Browning) She was the daughter of William Garretson Browning, a Methodist Episcopal minister, and Susan Rebecca Webb Browning. She married Thomas E. Burroughs in 1884. He died in 1904. She married Arthur Prince Adams, in 1905. He was a minister. Her poem, "Unanswered yet" which was written in 1879, was published in the The Christian Standard in 1880 with the name F. G. Browning. She also wrote under the name of F. G. Burroughs and Mrs. T. E. Burroughs. Dianne Shapiro from The Literary Digest, July 29, 1899., The Register, Pine Plains, NY, October 24, 1884, Alumni Record of Wesleyan University, Middleton, Conn. 1921

Francis Hopkinson

1737 - 1791 Person Name: F. Hopkinson Hymnal Number: 266 Composer of "[Hail! Columbia, happy land!]" in Deseret Sunday School Songs Francis Hopkinson; grad. College of Philadelphia with master’s degree; studied law and passed Pa. bar; opened conveyancer’s office in Philadelphia; musical and literary talent; prolific writer who frequently used pen name, A. B. LOC Name Authority Files