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Joseph Straphan

b. 1757 Hymnal Number: 640 Author of "Blest work, the youthful mind to win" in Psalms and Hymns Straphan, Joseph. This author contributed 3 hymns to Rippon's Baptist Selection, 1787 (see p. 149, i.), viz.:—(1) "Blest is the man whose heart expands" (Education of the Young, (2) "On wings of faith mount up, my soul, and rise" (Heaven anticipated); and (3) "Our Father, Whose eternal sway" (Divine Worship). From No. 1 two centos have been taken:—(1) "Blest work the youthful mind to win," in several collections in Great Britain; and (2), "Delightful work, young souls to win," in use in America. Straphan's birth is given as 1757. From a hymn in the Gospel Magazine, we find that he resided at that time at Hanley. Further details are wanting. [Rev. W. R. Stephenson] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

James Gallaher

1792 - 1853 Person Name: Gallaher Hymnal Number: 315 Author of "My conscious guilt is now so great" in Psalms and Hymns Gallagher. Under this name the hymn "The sun himself shall fade" (Trust) is given in Songs for the Sanctuary, N. Y., 1865. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Kirkham

Hymnal Number: 381 Author of "Didst thou, dear Saviour, suffer shame" in Psalms and Hymns

Luther J. Cox

1791 - 1870 Hymnal Number: 717 Author of "An alien from God, and a stranger to grace" in Psalms and Hymns Cox, Luther J. (December 27, 1791--July 26, 1870). He was born on a farm in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, and died in Hampden, Maryland, his home for the last twelve years of his life. The "Bard of the American Methodist Reformation," a layman and local preacher, one of the founders of the Methodist Protestant Church, he engaged in mercantile pursuits throughout all of his active life. He was the author of several hymns which were popular with the early-day Methodist Protestants. --Robert G. McCutchan, DNAH Archives

Samuel Boyce

Hymnal Number: 264 Author of "Ye trembling captives, hear The gospel trumpet sounds" in Psalms and Hymns Boyce. Twenty-one hymns appeared under this signature in Williams and Boden's Collection of above Six Hundred Hymns, &c, 1801. The writer is sometimes described as "Samuel Boyce"; but nothing definite is known to us concerning him. Of these hymns the following are in common use:— 1. All hail, redeeming Lord. Christ the Day-Spring. 2. Grace, how melodious is the sound. Fulness of Grace. 3. Great Sovereign Lord, what human eye. Harvest. 4. 0 the transcendent love. Christ the Sinner's Friend. 5. Ye trembling captives, hear. The Gospel Trumpet. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

John Denham

1615 - 1668 Hymnal Number: P104c Author of "Great is the Lord, what tongue can frame [tell]" in Psalms and Hymns Denham, Sir John, only son of Sir John Denham, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and afterwards Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Ireland, born in Dublin, 1615, and educated at Trinity College, Oxford. In 1641 he was made governor of Fareham Castle for Charles I., and subsequently attended Charles II. in his exile. At the Restoration he was rewarded for his devotion to the Crown, and created a Knight of the Bath. Died in London, 1668, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. His poem, Cooper's Hill, is well known. The manly energy and nervous force of his verse was much more popular with Pope and Johnson and the 18th century school, than it is at the present time. His Version of the Psalms was written about 1668, but not published until 1714. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

William Maxwell

1801 - 1900 Hymnal Number: 475 Author of "Jesus, Master, hear me now" in Psalms and Hymns

J. H. Livingstone

1746 - 1825 Hymnal Number: P103e Author of "My soul, with humble fervor raise To God the" in Psalms and Hymns Livingstone. Under this name several hymns are in Collyer's Collection, 1812. Of these "My soul, with humble fervour raise" (Praise) is still in common use. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Joseph Swain

1723 - 1792 Person Name: Swain Hymnal Number: 436 Author of "Firmly I stand on Zion's hill" in Psalms and Hymns Joseph Swain born in 1723 in Reading, Mass, graduated at Harvard College in 1744; was schoolmaster at Reading in 1746; was ordained as pastor of the Congregationalist Church at Wenham, Mass in 1750. He was the author of several hymns. He was pastor of his church for forty-two years, until he died June 27, 1792. Swain and allied families, compiled by William C. Swain, Milwaukee,Wis: Press of Swain & Tate Company, 1896