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Alice Williams Brotherton

1838 - 1930 Hymnal Number: d47 Author of "The lesson of the lilies" in Heart and Voice Brotherton, Alice, née Williams, born at Cambridge, Ind., and married in 1876 to William E. Brotherton of Cincinnati. Has published Beyond the Veil, Chicago, 1886, and Sailing of King Olaf, 1887. Author of "Consider the lilies, How stately they grow" (Providence), in Horder's Worship Song, 1905, and others. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Lewis G. Pray

1793 - 1882 Hymnal Number: d289 Author of "Hands of cheer and hearts sincere" in Heart and Voice Pray, Lewis Glover, was born at Quincy, Massachusetts, Aug. 15, 1793. Removing to Boston in 1808, he entered into business there in 1815, and retired therefrom in 1838. He was for some time a member of the City Government of Boston, of the Board of Education, and of the State Legislature. From an early date lie was associated with Sunday schools, and was for 34 years superintendent of the Sunday School of the Twelfth Congregational Society, Boston. In 1833 he published a Sunday School Hymn Book, the first with music ever compiled for American Unitarian Sunday schools. This was enlarged in 1844 as the Sunday School Hymn and Service Book. He also published a History of Sunday Schools, 1847; a Christian Catechism, 1849; and other works. His hymns and poems were collected and published in 1862, as The Sylphides' School, and a second volume of a like kind appeared in 1873, as Autumn Leaves. Most of his hymns appeared in his collections of 1833 and 1844. Putnam (to whom we are indebted for these details) gives in his Singers and Song, &c, 1874, p. 81, four pieces from his volume of 1862, and two from that of 1873. One of these, "When God upheaved the pillared earth" (Silent Work) was repeated in the American Hymns of the Ages, 3rd series, 1864. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

H. C. Bunner

Hymnal Number: d290 Author of "The heart of the tree" in Heart and Voice

Seth Curtis Beach

1837 - 1932 Hymnal Number: d22 Author of "Doing to others" in Heart and Voice Seth Curtis Beach was born on August 8, 1837 in western New York State. He was a Unitarian minister, author, poet and hymnist. The family lived in a log cabin they had built on a fifty acre farm near the village of Marion, New York. His mother and older sister tutored him until he was eight. In 1858 he enrolled at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, but transferred to Union College in Schenectady, New York and gradated from there with an A.B. degree in 1863. As a Unitarian, Beach enrolled at Harvard Divinity School to prepare for the ministry. After college he preached as a supply minister for a number of churches eventually settling at All Souls Unitarian Church in Augusta, Maine in 1867. He also served as minister at First Church in Dedham and later in Bangor. He published several books of sermons, served as secretary of the national Unitarian Ministerial Union, and was appointed Superintendent for Missionary Work in Northern New England for the American Unitarian Association (AUA). He visited struggling parishes in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont helping them to solve congregational problems. Seth Curtis Beach died in 1932. The Unitarian Year Book called him “the dean of our Unitarian ministers.” NN, Hymnary editor. Source: Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography, www25.uua.org/uuhs/

L. M. Mills

Hymnal Number: d59 Author of "Father, hear the prayer we offer" in Heart and Voice

Edward Augustus Horton

1843 - 1931 Hymnal Number: d6 Author of "Easter morning" in Heart and Voice Horton, Rev. Edward Augustus. (Springfield, Massachusetts, September 28, 1843--April 15, 1931, Toronto, Canada). He studied at the University of Chicago and at Meadville Theological School, from which he graduated in 1868. He served Unitarian churches in Leominster, Mass., 1868-1875; Hingham, Mass., 1877-1880; and the Second Church in Boston, 1880-1892. Thereafter he was active in the work of the Unitarian Sunday School Society. In 1912, he wrote an "Anniversary Hymn" beginning "We honor those whose work began" which was included in The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Jennie A. Bisbee

Hymnal Number: d140 Author of "Live for something be not idle" in Heart and Voice

H. C. Andersen

1805 - 1875 Person Name: Hans Christian Andersen Hymnal Number: d33 Author of "Child Jesus came from heaven to earth" in Heart and Voice Andersen, Hans Christian, son of poor parents, was born at Odense, Denmark, April 2, 1805, and died Aug. 4, 1875. He is well known as a poet, and a writer for children. His Christmas Carol, "Child Jesus comes from heavenly height," translated from the Danish, is in The Evangelical Hymnal, N. Y., 1880. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Florence C. Armstrong

1843 - 1890 Hymnal Number: d109 Author of "All from God" in Heart and Voice Armstrong, Florence Catherine, daughter of William Armstrong, M.D., of Collooney, Co. Sligo, Ireland, born March 18, 1843. Her well-known hymn:— 0 to be over yonder [Longing for Heaven] was written in 1862, and published without her consent in the British Herald, Feb. 1865, p. 24, and dated "Jan., 1865." It soon attained an extended circulation, and was given in several collections. In 1875 Miss Armstrong acknowledged the authorship in her work, The King in His Beauty and Other Poems. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Harriet Ware Hall

1841 - 1889 Person Name: Harriet Hall Hymnal Number: d287 Author of "Weary am I, go to rest" in Heart and Voice Hall, Harriet Ware. (Boston, Massachusetts, September 15, 1841--March 18, 1889, Boston). She was a lifelong resident of Boston, a member of King's Chapel. Two small books by her were privately printed, one a collection of poems entitled A Book for Friends, 1888, the other entitled Essays, printed posthumously in 1890. The first book contains a hymn beginning "Lord, beneath thine equal hand" in three stanzas, 7.7.7.7.D., dated February 10, 1869, and written for the installation of Rev. E.H. Hall at Worcester, Mass., in 1869. It is included in the Isles of Shoals Hymn Book, 1908, the first line altered to read "Lord, beneath whose equal hand." --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives