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W. S. Marshall

Hymnal Number: 69 Arranged from of "[Joys are flowing like a river]" in Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services He composed tunes for gospel lyric writers. John Perry

H. L. Turner

Hymnal Number: 67 Author of "Christ Returneth" in Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services

Samuel O'Malley Cluff

1837 - 1910 Person Name: S O'Maley Cluff Hymnal Number: 72 Author of "I Am Praying for You" in Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services Rv Samuel O'Malley Gore Cluff (Clough) United Kingdom 1837-1910. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he attended Trinity College and became a minister in the (Anglican) Church of Ireland. He pastored at various locations in Ireland. In 1884 he became leader of the Plymouth Brethren. He married Anne Blake Edge. They had four children. He wrote hymn poems and about 1000 songs. He composed many melodies and oratories. He died in Abbeyleix, Ireland. While holding crusades in Scotland with D. L. Moody, Ira Sankey came across Cluff's poem about prayer and composed the music for it, used in subsequent crusades. John Perry

Homer A. Rodeheaver

1880 - 1955 Person Name: Homer Rodeheaver Hymnal Number: 85 Composer of "[Somebody knows when your heart aches]" in Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services Homer Rodeheaver (1880-1955) was a world renowned evangelist and the music director of Billy Sunday's Evangelistic Campaigns. He was born in Union Furnace, OH. In the Spanish American War he served as trombonist. In 1918 he worked in France with the YMCA, He was President of Rodeheaver, Hall-Mack Co. and founder of Rodeheaver Boys' Ranch in Palatka, FL. see Osborne p.328 Mary Louise VanDyke

Ada Blenkhorn

1858 - 1927 Hymnal Number: 54 Author of "I Want to See Jesus, Don’t You?" in Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services Ada Jane Blenkhorn Canada 1858-1927 Born in Cobourg, Ontario, the 10th of 11 children, she emigrated with her family to the U.S. In 1884 and settled in Cleveland, OH.. She was raised a Methodist, and began writing hymn lyrics at age 34. A prolific writer of hymn lyrics, she was about to give it up when a friend encouraged her to continue, telling her some soul might be saved by a hymn she would write. She worked for many years as secretary to her brother, Henry's, real estate company. After his death in 1923, she became president of the company. She never married. John Perry

Charlotte G. Homer

1856 - 1932 Hymnal Number: 176 Author of "Awakening Chorus" in Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services Pseudonym. See also Gabriel, Chas. Hutchinson, 1856-1932

F. A. Blackmer

1855 - 1930 Hymnal Number: 153 Composer of "[After the storm that sweeps the sea]" in Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services Blackmer, Francis Augustus. (Ware, Massachusetts, February 17, 1855--October 8, 1930, Somerville, Massachusetts). Advent Christian musician. His parents, Augustus and Jane Blackmer, were among those caught up in the excitement of the Millerite Movement. One son, Fred, became an Advent Christian minister. Francis, with a talent recognized at an early age, consecrated his own life to Christian service as a musician. He was immersed in baptism at the Adventist campmeeting in Springfield, Massachusetts, by Elder Miles Grant. His early years were spend in central Massachusetts, his schooling at Wilbraham Academy. He was largely self-taught in harmony and musical composition. He wrote the words and music to his first gospel song, "Out on the fathomless sea," at the age of sixteen. Altogether he wrote over 300 gospel songs about the Second Coming, witnessing and working for the Lord, and praises to God's Holy Name. A few of these have circulated widely outside his own denomination. His final text, "I shall see him, And be like him," came when he was so weak that his friend, Clarence M. Seamans, had to supply the music. He used the pseudonym, A. Francis, with some of his early songs. Blackmer's first anthology was The Gospel Awakening, (1888). Subsequent gospel songbooks with which he was associated were: Singing by the Way (1895), Carols of Hope (1906), The Golden Sheaf, No. 2 (1916), and Songs of Coming Glory (1926). Most of his adult life was spent in Somerville, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, where he had a prosperous piano business. In the 1890s, his "Francis A. Blackmer Pianos" were made for him by the Washington Hall Piano Company of Boston. Later, his "Good as Gold Pianos" were manufactured by the Christman Piano Company of New York City and shipped directly to his customers throughout New England. In Somerville, Blackmer served as choirmaster and song-leader in the Advent Christian Church for many years. He was also an elder of the church until his death. From 1914 until his death, he was songleader at the mid-summer Alton Bay Campmeeting on Lake Winnepesaukee, New Hapshire. There his High Rock Hill was both a salesroom and a summer cottage over the years. He was a member of the board of directors of the campmeeting association for several years. Very popular were his singing sessions on the campground square between suppertim and evening services, and a final sing into the small hours of the night following the final service of the campmeeting. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives

Emma F. R. Campbell

1830 - 1919 Person Name: Miss Etta Campbell Hymnal Number: 52 Author of "Jesus of Nazareth Passeth By" in Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services Campbell, Emma F. R. (1830-1919). Her first name is sometimes given as "Etta." She was a school teacher in Morristown, New Jersey. She published a few novels and an anthology, The Hymn "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by" and Its History, and Other Verses (New York: M. E. Munson, 1909). Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives ========================== Campbell, Etta, sometime a teacher in Morristown, New Jersey, is the author of:— 1. Come, ye children, sweetly sing. Jesus the Children's Friend. Appeared in E. P. Hammond's Praises of Jesus, 1864; his New Praises of Jesus, 1869; and in other collections, including several in Great Britain. 2. What means this eager, anxious throng. Jesus passes by. Written during a religious revival in Newark, U.S., 1863, and published in Song Victories. It is found in several collections, and was rendered exceedingly popular in Great Britain by Mr. Sankey in his Evangelical tour with Mr. Moody, 1874-6. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Mary R. Tilden

Person Name: M. R. Tilden Hymnal Number: 148 Author of "I Am With You" in Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services Pseudonym. See also Crosby, Fanny, 1820-1915

Grace D. Roe

Person Name: Grace Duffie Roe Hymnal Number: 86 Author of "Pilot of Galilee" in Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services