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Grace J. Frances

Hymnal Number: 262 Author of "Blessed Home-Land" in Select Songs No. 2 Pseudonym. See also Crosby, Fanny, 1820-1915

1846 - 1924 Person Name: R. M. Offord Hymnal Number: 109 Author of "Jesus, Heed Me, Lost and Dying" in Select Songs No. 2 Offord, Robert M., son of an English "open-communion" Baptist, was born at St. Austell, Cornwall, Sept. 17, 1846. In 1870 he removed to America, where he was associated for some time with the Methodists, but subsequently joined the Reformed Dutch Church in 1878. He is editor of the New York Observer. To that paper he contributed:— 1. Jesus, heed me, lost and dying. Lent. 2. It is no untried way. Christ's Burden. No. 1 appeared on Jan. 25th, and No. 2 on Feb. 1st, 1883. They were revised for Laudes Domini, N. Y., 1884 (Duffield's English Hymns, N. Y., 1886). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Ernest R. Wilberforce

Person Name: Canon Ernest R. Wilberforce Hymnal Number: 211 Author of "Just for Today" in Select Songs No. 2

Charles F. Roper

b. 1843 Person Name: Chas. F. Roper Hymnal Number: 82 Composer of "[Thy word is like a deep, deep mine]" in Select Songs No. 2

Selina S. Gibbs

Hymnal Number: 93 Author of "Go and Tell Jesus" in Select Songs No. 2

Edward Howe

Person Name: Edward Howe, Jr. Hymnal Number: 224 Composer of "[My soul is not at rest]" in Select Songs No. 2

Vincenzo Bellini

1801 - 1835 Person Name: V. Bellini Hymnal Number: 71 Composer of "[Light of the world, we hail Thee]" in Select Songs No. 2 Vicenzo Bellini, a dramatic composer, born at Catania, Sicily; early went to Naples and became known a s a composer' his first opera was performed 1824; in 1828 "La Straniera" attracted the attention of all Italy, in 1833, he founded his fortune and his fame with "Norma," "La Sonnambula," and "Puritani;" died Sept 23, 1835, aged thirty three. A dictionary of musical information: containing also a vocabulary of musical terms, and a list of modern musical works published in the United States from 1640 to 1875 by John Weeks Moore (Boston: Oliver Ditson, c. 1876)