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Ella Lauder

1864 - 1964 Hymnal Number: 14 Arranger of "Wond'rous Love" in Hymns New and Old, Revised Ella Lauder was Editor of the Home Department of the Midland, a Chicago periodical where many of her writings appeared, both prose and poetry. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Mrs. C. L. Shacklock

Hymnal Number: 43 Author of "Stand for the Right" in Hymns New and Old, Revised

George W. Crofts

1842 - 1909 Person Name: G. W. Crofts Hymnal Number: 40 Author of "Move Forward!" in Hymns New and Old, Revised We have little data on Crofts, except that he was a minister. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

George H. Simmons

Person Name: Geo. H. Simmons Hymnal Number: 156 Composer of "[Tell me, pilgrim, faint and weary]" in Hymns New and Old, Revised

Kate Sumner Burr

1842 - 1902 Person Name: Mrs. Kate Sumner Burr Hymnal Number: 112 Author of "The Lord hath Risen" in Hymns New and Old, Revised Born: September 24, 1842, Woodbridge, Michigan. Buried: Sunnyside Cemetery, Williamson, New York. Wife of Dr. Henry Newton Burr, Kate lived in Walworth, New York. She contributed several poems to the Independent and other journals. Sources: Findagrave, accessed 18 Nov 2016 © The Cyber Hymnal™. Used by permission. (www.hymntime.com)

Edwin H. Nevin

1814 - 1889 Person Name: Edwin H. Nevin, D. D. Hymnal Number: 18 Author of "Beneath His Wing" in Hymns New and Old, Revised Nevin, Edwin Henry, D.D., son of Major David Nevin, was born at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, May 9, 1814. He graduated in Arts at Jefferson College, 1833; and in Theology at Princeton Seminary, in 1836. He held several pastorates as a Presbyterian Minister from 1836 to 1857; then as a Congregational Minister from 1857 to 1868; and then, after a rest of six years through ill health, as a Minister of the Reformed Church, first at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and then in Philadelphia. Dr. Nevin is the author of several hymns, the more important of which are:— 1. Always with me [us], always with [us] me. Jesus always present. 2. Come up hither, come away. Invitation Heavenward. 3. Happy, Saviour, would I be. Trust. This is given in the Lyra Sacra Americana as "Saviour! happy should I be." This change was made by the editor "with the consent and approbation of the author." 4. 0 heaven, sweet heaven. Heaven. Written and published in 1862 after the death of a beloved son, which made heaven nearer and dearer from the conviction that now a member of his family was one of its inhabitants" (Schaff’s Christ in Song, 1870, p. 539). 5. Live on the field of battle. Duty. Appeared in the Baptist Devotional Hymn Book, 1864. 6. I have read of a world of beauty. Heaven. 7. Mount up on high! as if on eagle's wings. Divine Aspirations. Of these hymns, Nos. 1, 2, 3 appeared in Nason's Congregational Hymn Book, 1857; and all, except No. 5, are in the Lyra Sacra Americana, 1868. [Rev. F.M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

J. H. Knowles

1835 - 1929 Person Name: Mrs. J. H. Knowles Hymnal Number: 51 Author of "The Victor's Song" in Hymns New and Old, Revised Ellin J. Toy Knowles [Mrs. Joseph H. Knowles] The 1903 History of the Newark Female Charitable Society said Knowles’ was from New York City when she addressed the Society in 1886; it also says she was president of the Society in 1893. The 1906 Minutes of the Newark Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church listed Knowles as a minister’s widow. Her works include: Spirit and Life; Selections from Bible Readings, 1899 Heart Talks on Bible Themes (Fleming H. Revell, 1911) The Woman’s National Foreign Missionary Jubilee The Christian Point of View --www.hymntime.com/tch

W. J. Baltzell

1864 - 1928 Hymnal Number: 27 Composer of "[Beneath the cross I lay me down]" in Hymns New and Old, Revised

Robert M. Offord

1846 - 1924 Person Name: Rev. R. M. Offord Hymnal Number: 90 Author of "Somewhere To-night" in Hymns New and Old, Revised Offord, Robert M., son of an English "open-communion" Baptist, was born at St. Austell, Cornwall, Sept. 17, 1846. In 1870 he removed to America, where he was associated for some time with the Methodists, but subsequently joined the Reformed Dutch Church in 1878. He is editor of the New York Observer. To that paper he contributed:— 1. Jesus, heed me, lost and dying. Lent. 2. It is no untried way. Christ's Burden. No. 1 appeared on Jan. 25th, and No. 2 on Feb. 1st, 1883. They were revised for Laudes Domini, N. Y., 1884 (Duffield's English Hymns, N. Y., 1886). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)