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William L. Wallace

1933 - 2024 Author of "Rejoice, Rejoice at Christmas Time" in Singing the Sacred

Ervin Barrios

b. 1954 Person Name: Ervin Barrios (mexicano, n. 19t=54) Translator of "A medianoche se escuchó" in Las Voces del Camino

Nickolas J. Campbell

Person Name: Nickolas Campbell Adapter of "Christmas Introit" in Discipleship Ministries Collection

Christoph Tietze

b. 1956 Person Name: Chistoph Tietze Author of "For Us a Child of Hope Is Born" in One in Faith

Jack Brown

Author of "We Join the Wise Men" in Hymns for a Pilgrim People

Charles H. Webb

b. 1933 Person Name: Charles H. Webb Composer (descant) of "CAROL" in The United Methodist Hymnal Music Supplement II

1819 - 1900 Person Name: R. S. Willis Composer of "CAROL" in Song-Hymnal of Praise and Joy Richard Storrs Willis (February 10, 1819 – May 10, 1900) was an American composer, notably of hymn music. One of his hymns is "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" (1850), with lyrics by Edmund Sears. He was also a music critic and journal editor. Willis, whose siblings included Nathaniel Parker Willis and Fanny Fern, was born on February 10, 1819, in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Chauncey Hall, the Boston Latin School, and Yale College where he was a member of Skull and Bones in 1841. Willis then went to Germany, where he studied six years under Xavier Schnyder and Moritz Hauptmann. While there, he became a personal friend of Felix Mendelssohn. After returning to America, Willis served as music critic for the New York Tribune, The Albion, and The Musical Times, for which he served as editor for a time. He joined the New-York American-Music Association, an organization which promoted the work native of naturalized American composers. He reviewed the organization's first concert for their second season, held December 30, 1856, in the Musical World, as a "creditable affair, all things considered". Willis began his own journal, Once a Month: A Paper of Society, Belles-Lettres and Art, and published its first issue in January 1862. Willis died on May 7, 1900. His interment was located at Woodlawn Cemetery. His works and music compilations include: Church Chorals and Choir Studies (1850) Our Church Music (1856) Waif of Song (1876) Pen and Lute (1883) --en.wikipedia.org

George P. Simmonds

1890 - 1991 Translator of "A Media Noche Allá en Belén" in El Himnario Used pseudonyms G Paul S., J. Paul Simon, and J. Pablo Símon

Dimas Planas-Belfort

1934 - 1992 Person Name: Dimas Planas Belfort Translator of "A media noche resonó" in El Himnario

Charles A. Dickinson

1849 - 1907 Author of "And brethren all are we" in Songs of the Christian Life Charles Albert Dickinson was born July 4, 1849. He spent the first sixteen years of his life living on his family farm in Westminster, Vermont. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, graduating in 1872. He then went on to graduate from Harvard College in 1876 and Andover Seminary in 1879. Dickinson served as pastor of Payson Memorial Church in Portland, Maine and Kirk Street Church in Lowell, Massachusetts before assuming his thirteen-year post at Berkeley Street Church in Boston, MA. in 1887. Under Dickinson's auspices, Berkeley Street Church became Berkeley Temple and greatly expanded its community outreach and so-called "rescue work," including the establishment of New England Kurn Hattin Homes for "homeless and neglected boys and girls" in Dickinson's hometown of Westminster, Vermont. Dickinson passed away in January of 1907 after an illness. Jaimie Scanlon ======================= Dickinson, Charles Albert, D.D., an American Congregational Minister, born at Westminster, Vermont, July 4, 1849, and graduated at Harvard University in 1876. He held various charges to 1899 when he retired through ill health, and returned to Ceres, California. His hymn-writing has been mainly for the young. Several of these hymns are in the Christian Endeavour Hymnal and other collections. The most widely known are "O golden day, so long desired," and "Blessed Master, I have promised" (Consecration to Christ). This latter was written Jan. 4, 1900. [Rev. C. L. Noyes, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)