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Dwight Williams

1824 - 1898 Hymnal Number: 358 Author of "Touch Not, Taste Not" in Inspiring Hymns

1792 - 1868 Person Name: Rossini Hymnal Number: 369 Composer of "[Flag of the free, Sing we praises to thee]" in Inspiring Hymns Gioacchino A. Rossini; b. 1792, Pesaro; d. 1868, Ruelle near Parise Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

DeLoss Smith

1875 - 1939 Hymnal Number: 230 Composer of "[Crown Him, crown Him with glory the King of kings]" in Inspiring Hymns Smith, DeLoss. (1875?--March 16, 1939, Missoula, Montana). Attended Eureka College, Illinois. Associated with William H. Boles and Charles Reign Scoville. Moved to New York City in 1907; director of music at Central Church, New York City, and Central Church, Des Moines, Iowa. Joined the music faculty at Columbia University, and in 1915 was elected to position of dean at the School of Music at the University of Montana at Missoula. --Tina Schneider, from obituary in the DNAH Archives

Scott Lawrence

Person Name: S. L. Hymnal Number: 223 Author of "He Loves Even Me" in Inspiring Hymns Early 20th Century

T. Martin Towne

1835 - 1912 Hymnal Number: 352 Composer of "[I have seen a mother weeping]" in Inspiring Hymns Towne, T. Martin. (Coleraine, Franklin County, Massachusetts, May 31 [sic], 1835-- ). Methodist. Attended Williston's Seminary, East Hampton, Mass. 1855 to Hudson, New York, then Albany. Taught in Ypsilanti, Michigan, then Detroit. Settled in Janesville, Wisconsin. Served in the Civil War. Settled in Chicago; married Belle Kellogg. Keith C. Clark, DNAH Archives

E. S. Hall

Hymnal Number: 208 Author of "His Love Can Never Fail" in Inspiring Hymns E.S. Hall is almost certainly a pseudonym for gospel composer Charles H. Gabriel. For more information on the evidence behind that ascription and the history of "His Love Can Never Fail," see Hymnology Archive.

Arthur Willis Spooner

1854 - 1930 Person Name: A. W. S. Hymnal Number: 52 Author of "I Would Not Live Without Him" in Inspiring Hymns

Neal A. McAulay

b. 1854 Hymnal Number: 164 Author of "The Children's Hosanna" in Inspiring Hymns McAulay, Neal A. (Nova Scotia, March, 1854--?). Born of Scottish parents "in the English town of Nova Scotia." At age 21 he moved to Boston and from there to Portland, Maine, in 1876. Converted in 1877; went to Chicago in 1882, and entered McCormick Theological Seminary in 1883 (B.D., 1886). Pastorates in Presbyterian churches in Wilton, Iowa (1886-1907) and Lyons, Louisiana (1907-?). In 1889 began writing gospel hymns. --Gabriel, Charles H. (1916). Singers and Their Songs. Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company.

Jessie H. Brown

Hymnal Number: 156 Author of "Keep Step in the March" in Inspiring Hymns See Pounds, Jessie Brown, 1861-1921

Powell G. Fithian

b. 1861 Hymnal Number: 47 Composer of "[Go forth! Go forth for Jesus now]" in Inspiring Hymns Born: April 30, 1861, Greenwich Township (now Gibbstown), New Jersey. Fithian was music director for the public schools in Camden, New Jersey. He and his wife Julia were both listed in the 1910 and 1920 census, but his wife appears alone in the 1930 census. Powell’s works include: Songs of the Mercy Seat, with George Hugg (Methodist Episcopal Book Room, 1899) Songs for Work and Worship, with Howard Entwisle & Adam Geibel (Dayton, Ohio: Lorenz & Company, 1900) Exalted Praise, with Howard Entwisle (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: MacCalla & Company, 1901) Heavenly Sunlight, with Howard Entwisle & Adam Geibel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: MacCalla & Company, 1902) The Fithian Music Primer (New York: American Book Company, 1915) --www.hymntime.com/tch/