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Jesse P. Tompkins

Hymnal Number: 132 Author of "Gliding Away" in The Young People's Hymnal

W. D. Kirkland

Person Name: W. D. Kirkland, D. D. Editor of "" in The Young People's Hymnal

Clarissa H. Spencer

Person Name: C. H. S. Hymnal Number: 87 Author of "O the Saviour Now Is Near" in The Young People's Hymnal

C. Cooke

Person Name: Rev. C. Cooke Hymnal Number: 72 Author of "Speed Away! Speed Away!" in The Young People's Hymnal

b. 1831 Person Name: I. N. M. Hymnal Number: 89 Author of "Are You Coming to the Feast?" in The Young People's Hymnal McHose, Isaac N. Born 1831/1832, Hellerstown, Pennsylvania. Some speculation on his identity. Co-editor with Kurzenknabe and Bentley on Gospel Trio of Sacred Song (1891). --Letters, family trees in DNAH Archives

Grace Elizabeth Cobb

Hymnal Number: 44 Author of "He Is Mine, I Am His" in The Young People's Hymnal

W. F. Cosner

1845 - 1880 Hymnal Number: 81 Author of "Come Home" in The Young People's Hymnal William F. Cosner

Henry Melville King

1838 - 1919 Person Name: Henry M. King, D. D. Hymnal Number: 109 Author of "An Open Bible for the World" in The Young People's Hymnal King, Henry Melville, D.D., an American Baptist minister, born at Oxford, Maine, Sept. 3, 1838; educated at Bowdoin College, (1859) and Newton Theo. Institution (1862), and entered the ministry in 1862. He was from 1863 to 1882 Pastor of Dudley Street Bap. Church, Roxbury, Mass., and since of Emmanuel Baptist Church, Albany, N.Y. Besides several prose productions, he is the author of the following hymns in common use:— 1. Christ, our Shepherd, leads us still. [Christ the Divine Leader] Dated 1886. 2. Holy Babe, Mary's Son, Calm the night, &c. [Christmas.] Dated 1886, and revised 1891. 3. O Thou, with Whom a thousand years Are but as yesterday. [For Anniversaries]. Dated 1871. These hymns were included in Sursum Corda, 1898. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ======================== King, Henry Melville. (Oxford, Maine, September 3, 1838--June 16, 1919, Providence, Rhode Island). Baptist. Bowdoin College, 1859 with highest honors; Newton Theological Institution, 1862; Honorary D.Div. from Colby Univeristy, 1877. Pastorates long, few, and conspicuous: 1863-1882, Boston, Massachusetts; 1882-1891, Albany, New York; 1891-1906, at the historic First Baptist Church, Providence, R.I. where he continued as pastor-emeritus until his death. Served as President of the Board of Managers of American Baptist Missionary Union, 1884-1887, and served four years as President of the Rhode Island Baptist Convention. King, an eighth-generation descendant of John Alden of Plymouth and of Francis Eaton, also of the Mayflower group, loved his native New England. With a great interest in history and biographies, he authored a number of historical papers, pamphlets, sermons, and discourses and was a frequent contributor to denominational journals and reviews, including a history of the First Baptist Church of Providence, R.I. King wrote a number of occasional hymns, several of which were published by Pond and Co. of New York. These include an Easter hymn, "Sing, O Heavens and Earth Rejoice" and a Christmas hymn, "Angels Sand the Natal Day." The Sursum Corda (1898) included three hymns by king: "Christ, our Shepherd, Leads Us Still" (1886); "Holy Babe, Mary's Son, Calm the Night" (1886) and "O Thou, with Whom a Thousand Years Are But as Yesterday" (1871). King was also the pastor of another Baptist hymn writer, John M. Hewes. --Donald A. Spencer, DNAH Archives