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George A. Minor

1845 - 1904 Hymnal Number: 139 Composer of "[Sowing in the morning, sowing seeds of kindness]" in Triumphant Service Songs George A. Minor was a native of Richmond, Virginia. He was an active member of the First Baptist church and led the singing in the Sunday school of that church. He composed several Sunday school hymns. He worked for the Hume-Minor Company, a piano and music dealer, and for the Mason-Hamlin Company,a piano manufacturer. Dianne Shapiro, excerpted from obituary in "Richmond Times-Dispatch," January 31, 1904

G. H. Cook

1864 - 1948 Hymnal Number: 154 Composer of "[Walking in sunlight, all of my journey]" in Triumphant Service Songs Rv George Harrison Cook USA 1864-1948. Not much is known about him. Converted at age 14, Cook was a preacher, singer, composer and involved with church music. He wrote the tune “Sunlight” and asked his friend, Harry Zelley, to write words for it, which he did, in 1899. He died in Ocean Grove, NJ. John Perry

Samuel O'Malley Cluff

1837 - 1910 Person Name: S. O'Maley Clouff Hymnal Number: 7 Author of "I'm praying for you" in Triumphant Service Songs Rv Samuel O'Malley Gore Cluff (Clough) United Kingdom 1837-1910. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he attended Trinity College and became a minister in the (Anglican) Church of Ireland. He pastored at various locations in Ireland. In 1884 he became leader of the Plymouth Brethren. He married Anne Blake Edge. They had four children. He wrote hymn poems and about 1000 songs. He composed many melodies and oratories. He died in Abbeyleix, Ireland. While holding crusades in Scotland with D. L. Moody, Ira Sankey came across Cluff's poem about prayer and composed the music for it, used in subsequent crusades. John Perry

George Heath

1745 - 1822 Hymnal Number: 109 Author of "My Soul, Be on Thy Guard" in Triumphant Service Songs Rv George Heath DD United Kingdom 1745-1822. Born at Exeter, Devon, England, he was educated at the Dissenting Academy and King’s College, Cambridge. He married Mary Ann Kean, and they had 4 children: Louisa, John, Charles, and Benjamin (also a minister). He served as pastor of the Honiton, Devonshire, Presbyterian Church, but proved unworthy and was dismissed for cause. He later became a Unitarian minister. In 1781 he published “Hymns & poetic essays sacred to the worship of the Deity”. He also authored a “History of Bristol”. He became Headmaster of Eton College (1792-1802). He joined the Anglican Church and became Canon of Windsor (1800-1822), Rector of Monks Risborough, Vicar of Sturminster Marshall, Dorset, Vicar of Piddletown, Vicar of East Beachsworth (1805-1814), and Fellow of the Royal Society (1795-1822). He was appointed to the 4th stall in St. George’s Chapel in 1800, Windsor Castle, and died at his residence in the Cloisters, Windsor Castle. John Perry ======================= Heath, George, became pastor of a Presbyterian Church at Honiton, Devon, in 1770, and died in 1822. He published a History of Bristol, 1797. Also Hymns and Poetic Essays Sacred to the Public and Private Worship of the Deity, &c, Bristol, 1781, from which "My soul, be on thy guard" (Steadfastness), is taken. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

William Vincent Wallace

1812 - 1865 Person Name: William V. Wallace Hymnal Number: 100 Composer of "SERENITY" in Triumphant Service Songs

C. Maud Battersby

Person Name: C. M. Battersby Hymnal Number: 81 Author of "An Evening Prayer" in Triumphant Service Songs

George Orlia Webster

1866 - 1942 Person Name: George O. Webster Hymnal Number: 32 Author of "I Need Jesus" in Triumphant Service Songs

Arthur Henry Messiter

1834 - 1916 Person Name: Arthur H. Messiter Hymnal Number: 102 Composer of "[Rejoice, ye pure in heart]" in Triumphant Service Songs Arthur H. Messiter (b. Frome, Somersetshire, England, 1834; d. New York, NY, 1916) Educated by private tutors in England, he, immigrated to the United States in 1863 and had an active musical career in Philadelphia, which included an organist position at St. James the Less. At Trinity Church in New York City, he modeled with distinction the British cathedral tradition of music. Messiter was an editor of the Episcopal Hymnal (1893), compiled the Psalter (1889) and Choir Office Book (1891), and wrote a musical history of Trinity Episcopal Church, New York (1906). Bert Polman

Homer A. Rodeheaver

1880 - 1955 Hymnal Number: 165 Composer of "[Somebody knows when your heart aches]" in Triumphant Service Songs Homer Rodeheaver (1880-1955) was a world renowned evangelist and the music director of Billy Sunday's Evangelistic Campaigns. He was born in Union Furnace, OH. In the Spanish American War he served as trombonist. In 1918 he worked in France with the YMCA, He was President of Rodeheaver, Hall-Mack Co. and founder of Rodeheaver Boys' Ranch in Palatka, FL. see Osborne p.328 Mary Louise VanDyke