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Uriah F. Swengel

1846 - 1921 Person Name: Rev. U. F. Swengel Hymnal Number: 367 Author of "Always all, for Christ our Saviour" in Hymn Book of the United Evangelical Church Swengel, Uriah F. (Middleberg, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1846--March 8, 1921, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania). One of four brothers who entered the ministry. Licensed to preach 1869 in Evangelical Association. Elected bishop in 1910, served to 1918. Assistant editor of Sunday School Literature, 1884-1887; Editor in United Evangelical Church, 1894-1898; Editor of The Keystone League of Christian Endeavor Journal (K.L.C.E. Journal); Secretary of S.S. and K.L.C.E. Managing Board, 1891-1902; President of S.S. and K.L.C.E., 1902-1910; Pioneer in leadership training, wrote corresponding text; Trustee in International Christian Endeavor Union; Pioneer in Brotherhood movement. --Robert S. Wilson, DNAH Archives

Phoebe A. Hanaford

1829 - 1921 Person Name: Mrs. J. H. Hanaford Hymnal Number: 474 Author of "Cast thy bread upon the waters" in Hymn Book of the United Evangelical Church Hanaford, Phoebe A., née Coffin, daughter of George F. Coffin, was born at Nantucket Island, May 6, 1829. Mrs. Hanaford is an Universalist, and one of their recognized ministers. Her hymn "Cast thy bread upon the waters" (Work and Wait), is in the Laudes Domini, N.Y., 1884, and other American collections. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ================= Born: May 6, 1829, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. Died: June 2, 1921, Rochester, New York. Daughter of Quaker ship owner George F. Coffin, Phoebe was cousin to feminist Lucretia Mott. A gifted writer, she was published in the local paper by the time she was a teenager. She studied Latin and mathematics and taught school for a few years, then in 1849 married Dr. Joseph H. Hanaford. The couple lived in Newton and Reading, Massachusetts, and had two children. Phoebe continued her literary efforts, producing poetry, children’s stories, essays, and biographies (her biography of Abraham Lincoln sold 20,000 copies). She also edited a Universalist magazine, and, urged by Rev. Olympia Brown, she eventually became a Universalist minister (the first woman ordained in New England). She served churches in Hingham and Waltham, Massachusetts; New Haven, Connecticut, and Jersey City, New Jersey. Her works include: Life of George Peabody Women of the Century (Boston, Massachusetts: B. B. Russell, 1877) www.hymntime.com/tch

Edwin L. Watts

1855 - 1935 Person Name: Rev. Edwin L. Watts Hymnal Number: 670 Author of "Our Jesus loves to hear us pray" in Hymn Book of the United Evangelical Church Watts, Rev. Edwin L. (Terre Hill, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1855--March 6, 1935, Terre Hill). School teacher seventeen years. Poet and writer. Married in 1876 to Amanda Snader; two daughters. Licensed in 1891 as preacher in United Evangelical Church, as it was called after 1894. He served a few years as a pastor in Fredericksburg, Mt. Nebo, Tamaqua, and Birdsboro, Pennsylvania. Ordained in 1894. Left pastorate to be a custodian at Albright College in Mayerstown, Penn, where he served 20 years. Funeral at Terre Hill, Rev. C.D. Rabuck, pastor. --Robert S. Wilson, DNAH Archives

Lucius Manlius Sargent

1786 - 1867 Person Name: Lucius M. Sargent Hymnal Number: 504 Author of "Bondage and death the cup contains" in Hymn Book of the United Evangelical Church Sargent, Lucius Manlius. (Boston, Massachusetts, June 25, 1786--June 2, 1867, Boston). A layman of independent mans, author of many articles advocating temperance. His temperance hymn beginning "Slavery and death the cup contains" was written during the Washingtonian Temperance Revival and appeared in Adams' and Chapin's Unitarian Hymns for Christian Devotion (Boston, 1846). In the American Methodist Episcopal Hymnal (1878), the first line is altered to read "Bondage and death the cup contains." The hymn is included, with the original wording, in the Universalist Church Harmonies (1895). --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

H. B. Hertzler

Person Name: Rev. H. B. Hertzler Hymnal Number: 480 Author of "Go and seek the lost and dying" in Hymn Book of the United Evangelical Church

J. Sills

b. 1713 Hymnal Number: 682 Author of "Sinner, Jesus loves you well" in Hymn Book of the United Evangelical Church

Alaric Alexander Watts

1797 - 1864 Person Name: Alaric A. Watts Hymnal Number: 414 Author of "Never, no never" in Hymn Book of the United Evangelical Church Watts, A. A., p. 1236, i. We find from Alaric Watts: A Narrative of his Life. By his son Alaric Alfred Watts, 2 vols., 1884, that the date of his birth was March 16, 1797, and of his death April 5, 1864. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

W. J. Bostwick

Hymnal Number: 551 Author of "Nearer home, nearer home" in Hymn Book of the United Evangelical Church

Mrs. H. B. Steele

1826 - 1902 Hymnal Number: 424 Author of "Children, loud hosannas singing" in Hymn Book of the United Evangelical Church Steele, Harriet, née Binney, daughter of Amos Binney, D.D., and wife of Daniel Steele, D.D., wrote "Children, loud hosannas singing" (Palm Sunday), at the request of the Editors of the Methodist Episcopal Hymnal in 1877. Published therein, 1878. (Nutter's Hymn Studies, 1884, p. 338.) --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)