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M. L. McPhail

Hymnal Number: 120 Composer of "[Like a chime of silver bells]" in The New Evangel

W. S. Brown

Hymnal Number: 61 Author of "As a Volunteer" in The New Evangel Early 20th Century

1865 - 1951 Hymnal Number: 176 Author of "Little Evangels" in The New Evangel Ida Lilliard Reed (Smith), 1865-1951 Born: November 30, 1865, near Arden, Barbour County, West Virginia. Died: July 8, 1951, Arden, West Virginia. Buried: Ebenezer Methodist Church, Arden, West Virginia. Reed is said to have written 2,000 hymns in her lifetime. In 1939, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers recognized her "substantial contribution to American music" by awarding her a small "weekly bonus." © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Charles Edward Prior

1856 - 1927 Person Name: Chas. Edw. Prior Hymnal Number: 132 Composer of "[Linger with me, precious Savior]" in The New Evangel Charles Edward Prior, 1856-1927 Prior played the piano at the Italian Baptist Mission in Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 19th Century. Music-- Go Stand and Speak Work for Us All --hymntime.com/tch

Maud Frazer Jackson

1873 - 1950 Person Name: Maud Frazer Hymnal Number: 22 Author of "Whom Having Not Seen, I Love" in The New Evangel Maud Frazer Jackson USA 1873-1950. It is surmised she lived in PA and/or NJ. She was a religious author, poet, and music compiler, who published her collections of music, including 400 hymns called “Hymns about forgiveness!”, “Wayside Song” (1922), and “Starlight & lamplight” (1928). Her poems were sometimes furnished to newspapers around the country and printed. John Perry

Emma Pitt

b. 1846 Person Name: Mrs. Emma Pitt Hymnal Number: 153 Author of "Lost, But Jesus Saved Me" in The New Evangel Born: 1846, Maryland. Pitt was living in Baltimore, Maryland, by 1880, and through at least 1910. She may have died before 1920, as the daughter with whom she was living in 1910 was on her own and still single in 1920. --www.hymntime.com

Laurene Highfield

1870 - 1970 Hymnal Number: 19 Author of "Somebody Loves You: 'Tis Jesus" in The New Evangel Laurene Highfield was born in Quincy, Illinois. She wrote about three hundred hymns and sacred songs, the libretto of one orotorio and several cantatas among other works. NN

William Stevenson

b. 1830 Person Name: Wm. Stevenson Hymnal Number: 27 Author of "Blessed Friend" in The New Evangel Late 19th Century Currently, our only data on Stevenson is that he was a minister. --http://www.hymntime.com/tch May be the same as William Fleming Stevenson.

I. N. McHose

b. 1831 Hymnal Number: 70 Composer of "[O have you not heard of that country above]" in The New Evangel 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

H. N. Lincoln

1859 - 1948 Hymnal Number: 91 Composer of "[In the shadow of the rock let me rest]" in The New Evangel 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)

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