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H. N. Lincoln

1859 - 1948 Person Name: Horace N. Lincoln Hymnal Number: d331 Author of "Sing and rejoice our army is on its bright way" in Bells of Heaven Horace Neely Lincoln, 1859-1948. Horace was the son of James Lincoln and Emaline King, and husband of Etta Lee Thurmand (married 1887). He moved with his family to Texas when he was seven years old. At age 10, he began attending a singing school conducted by James M. Jolley of Mississippi. In 1880, he taught his first singing class in his old neighborhood school house. Later that year, he attended his first normal music school, taught at Mountain Home (now Holland), Texas. Lincoln had other musical training under L. B. Shook (a former student of Philip Bliss) and John McPherson of Illinois. In 1898, he graduated from the Chicago National College of Music, and in 1906 took a post-graduate course under Horatio Palmer. Lincoln eventually became president of the Songland Music Company, and the World’s Normal Musical College. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (hymntime/tch)

E. C. Avis

1859 - 1933 Person Name: Edward C. Avis Hymnal Number: d74 Author of "Settle the question tonight" in Bells of Heaven

I. N. McHose

b. 1831 Hymnal Number: d239 Author of "Going away unsaved" in Bells of Heaven McHose, Isaac N. Born 1831/1832, Hellerstown, Pennsylvania. Some speculation on his identity. Co-editor with Kurzenknabe and Bentley on Gospel Trio of Sacred Song (1891). --Letters, family trees in DNAH Archives

Hattie M. Conrey

b. 1838 Hymnal Number: d392 Author of "What though clouds are hovering o'er me" in Bells of Heaven Miss Harriet M. Conrey, a daughter of Jonathan Conrey, and a granddaughter of Peter Conrey, percentor of the old Gold Street Baptist church, New York City, was born in New York, November 5, 1838. She was baptized by Rev. Thomas Armintage, D.D., pastor the the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church,but a present she is a member of the Park Avenue Baptist church in Plainfield N. J. Formerly she was a teacher, but on account of ill health she has been obliged to turn to other pursuits. from Baptist Hymn Writers and Their Hymns, 1889 By Henry Sweetser Burrage

G. Tabor Thompson

Hymnal Number: d353 Author of "Coming back again" in Bells of Heaven Thompson, G. Tabor. (19th century). Little information has been available on this author, except that he succeeded J.H. Burke as song leader under A.B. Simpson at the New York Gospel Tabernacle about 1890. --Paul Milburn, DNAH Archives

Thomas Hayward

Hymnal Number: d383 Author of "Welcome, delightful morn, Thou [Sweet] day of sacred rest" in Bells of Heaven

William A. Williams

1854 - 1938 Person Name: W. A. Williams Hymnal Number: d403 Author of "Down in the licensed saloon" in Bells of Heaven

Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman

1843 - 1943 Person Name: L. M. Bateman Hymnal Number: d4 Author of "My inheritance" in Bells of Heaven Pseudonym: Grace Glenn; Lucinda M. Beal Bateman lived in Ionia, Michigan. She wrote A book of rhymes to suit the times published about 1886 by N. Chapin & Son (Chicago); Gleams of gold published about 1889, and The prohibition speaker: a collection of readings, recitations, dialogues, tableux and songs for temperance and prohibition entertainments published in 1889 by Filmore Bros. (Cincinnati). She married Zadoc Henry Bateman in 1875. They had one daughter, Grace. Dianne Shapiro, from "A book of rhymes to suit the times" and "The Genealogy of Dennis Bowen Caskey and Michelle Lynn Smith" (caskey-family.com/genhome, retrieved 7-1-2018)

Sidney S. Brewer

1804 - 1889 Person Name: Sydney Smith Brewer Hymnal Number: d370 Author of "Watchman, tell me, does the morning" in Bells of Heaven Rv Sidney Smith Brewer USA 1804-1889. Born in New Jersey, he became an Advent Christian Church minister. He was also a writer. He wrote a book about the second coming of Christ in the 1840s. He married Sarah Ann Conger, and they had two children, a daughter, Maria Elizabeth, and a son, Charles F. He died in New Bedford, MA. John Perry