Person Results

Katharine E. Purvis

Hymnal Number: d391 Author of "When the saints are marching in, Joyful songs" in Bells of Heaven

J. E. Landor

Hymnal Number: d45 Author of "When the King comes in" in Bells of Heaven 19th Century

R. S. Coward

Hymnal Number: d322 Author of "Story of grace" in Bells of Heaven

1775 - 1843 Person Name: Bourne H. Draper Hymnal Number: d456 Author of "The Rose of Sharon" in Bells of Heaven Draper, Bourne Hall, born at Cumnor, near Oxford, in 1775, and educated for the Baptist Ministry at the Bristol Academy, under the Rev. Dr. J. Rylands. He was pastor of the Baptist Church at Chipping Norton 1804, and subsequently at Southampton, where he d. Oct. 12, 1843. See note on his hymn," Ye Christian heroes, go, proclaim," p. 1296, ii. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

John Pollock

Hymnal Number: d260 Author of "Sinner, return" in Bells of Heaven

H. N. Lincoln

1859 - 1948 Person Name: Horace N. Lincoln Hymnal Number: d179 Author of "I would be of use to thee" 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)

Ida M. Budd

1859 - 1959 Hymnal Number: d238 Author of "I've asked him in to stay" in Bells of Heaven Ida M. Budd was born in 1859 in a log cabin in Saginaw County, Michigan. When she was three years old her parents moved to Milford, Michigan. She loved nature and books. She decided to be a school teacher, receiving her teaching certificate when she was fifteen. Her first poem was published in 1881. She is known for her poems for children. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

N. W. Allphin

1875 - 1972 Person Name: Newton W. Allphin Hymnal Number: d419 Author of "Sailing o'er Life's Ocean [sea]" in Bells of Heaven Newton Washington Allphin wrote religious music, piano solos, and band marches. He was a member of the Church of Christ. He compiled and published twelve song books. - Monty Lynn from Our Garden of Song, edited by Gene C. Finley (West Monroe, LA: Howard, 1980).