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Archibald MacDonald

1853 - 1948 Hymnal Number: 203 Composer of "WARRIOR" in The New Hymnal for American Youth

1838 - 1908 Person Name: J. R. Fairlamb Hymnal Number: 200 Composer of "MARTINEAU" in The New Hymnal for American Youth Mr. J. Remington Fairlamb received his first musical instruction at the hands of his mother. Although he was exceedingly fond of his music, while very young he was more fond of “dreaming” than of “practicing” at the piano. But at the age of twelve the boy came across a copy of Spohr’s oratorio ”The Last Judgment,” which seems to have satisfied his craving and shaped his career. When fourteen years of age he obtained a position as organist of the Western Methodist church, the first of its denomination in Philadelphia to obtain an organ. He afterwards filled the same position in the Tabernacle Baptist Church and succeeded one of the best church musicians of that city as organist and choir master of the Clinton Street Presbyterian church. During his twentieth year Mr. Fairlamb went to Europe and studied first in Paris, the piano under Marmoutel, voice under Masset, and harmony under Danhauser; subsequently he continued his studies under Mabellin in Florence Italy. Returning to America about the outbreak of the Civil War, and being incapacitated for military service by defective eyesight, Mr. Fairlamb accepted the position of Musical Director of the Church of the Epiphany in Washington, D.C. Here he enjoyed the acquaintance of many notable people, including President and Mrs. Lincoln. Being appointed United States consul at Zurich in Switzerland by Mr. Lincoln, he returned to Europe and remained there four years. His compositions number about two hundred in all. His music is distinguishable by dramatic intensity and orchestral ideas. He has published a part of a romantic opera, “Valeri,” and a quartet opera, “Love’s Stratagem.” His songs published in “St. Nicholas Songs” and “Harper’s Young People,” are so simple, quaint and delicate that, says a prominent New York contralto, he would live had he composed nothing else, forever in these.” His “Cradle Song” is a worthy specimen of this style of composition. Mr. Fairlamb has charge of societies in Newburgh, Hudson and Catskill. from The World's Best Music: Famous Songs and Those who Made Them Famous, Volume 1 By Frederic Dean, Reginald De Koven, Gerrit Smith

Arthur Berridge

1855 - 1932 Hymnal Number: 142 Composer of "HARVARD" in The New Hymnal for American Youth

John W. Barrington

1861 - 1946 Person Name: J. W. Barrington Hymnal Number: 263 Composer of "ONWARD" in The New Hymnal for American Youth

Robert Bonner

1854 - 1899 Hymnal Number: 294 Composer of "PASTOR REGALIS" in The New Hymnal for American Youth Robert Bonner was born in Brighton, England, in 1854. After study at the Leipzig Conservatory, he immigrated to the United States and settled in Providence, Rhode Island, where he taught privately and was organist of St. John's Church. He died in 1899. --AGO Founders Hymnal, p. 86

Elizabeth Wilson

b. 1867 Hymnal Number: 1 Author of "Father of lights, in whom there is no shadow" in The New Hymnal for American Youth Wilson, Elizabeth, L.L.D. (Neenah, Wisconsin, August 17, 1867--?). Daughter of a Methodist Episcopal minister, herself an ordained minister of the same denomination, a member (one-time officer) of the American Association of Women Preachers, and of the British Society for the Ministry of Women. She was educated at Lawrence University (now College), Appleton, Wisconsin; Oxford, England; Jena, Germany, and the Bengal Government Weaving Institute, Serampore, Inda. After teaching at Lawrence for five years, 1885-1889, she began her real life work with the Y.W.C.A. and continued in it for thirty-nine years, a part of the time being spent as as Association Secretary in Japan. Retiring from active work she lived for a time at Appleton and then removed to California where, in 1953 at the time of this writing, she makes her home in Los Angeles at Pacific Homes, a residence for retired religious workers. See the biographical sketch of Helen Thoburn for a full account of the writing of her hymn, "Father of lights, in whom there is no shadow" (Helen Thoburn and Elizabeth Wilson), the first half of stanza one of which is widely used as an Opening Response. --Robert G. McCutchan, DNAH Archives

Leroy B. Campbell

Hymnal Number: 236 Composer of "VISION" in The New Hymnal for American Youth

Charles L. Ziegler

Hymnal Number: 224 Composer of "CHURCH VIGILANT" in The New Hymnal for American Youth

Ebenezer S. Oakley

1865 - 1935 Hymnal Number: 213 Author of "In life's earnest morning" in The New Hymnal for American Youth Oakley, Ebenezer Sherman, M.A., son of the Rev. Henry Oakley, Congregational Minister, was b. Dec. 24, 1865, at Richmond, Yorks. He studied in arts at Glasgow Univ., and in theology at Airedale College, Bradford, and the Univ. of Giessen, and took his M.A. at the Univ. of Allahabad in N. India. He is now (1906) missionary of the L.M.S. at Almora in N. India, and Principal of Ramsay College there. He contributed three hymns to Dr. John Hunter's Hymns of Faith and Life, 1889 and 1896, from which Nos. 1 and 2 passed into the Public School Hymn Book, 1903, and Worship Song, 1905. 1. Enduring Soul of all our life. [Whitsuntide.] Written 1885; in Hunter, 1889, No. 176. 2. In life's earnest morning. [Help in God.] "Written 1885; in Hunter, 1889, No. 661, entitled Student’s Hymn. 3. 0 Holy Child of Bethlehem. [Devotion to Christ.] In Hunter, 1896, No. 360. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Clarence G. Hamilton

1865 - 1935 Hymnal Number: 92 Composer of "WALLACE" in The New Hymnal for American Youth Born: June 9, 1865, Providence, Rhode Island. Hamilton attended Brown University (BA 1888, AM 1900, Phi Beta Kappa). He taught at a private preparatory school in Providence (1888-89), and taught music in Providence, chiefly piano and theory (1889-1904). As of 1930, he was chair of the music department at Wellesley College. He was organist and choir director at several churches, contributed articles to various musical journals, and was secretary of the Northeast Chapter, American Guild of Organists. His works include: Music Appreciation, Based upon Methods of Literary Criticism The School Credit Piano Course for the Systematic Training of Ears, Fingers and Mind in Piano Playing and Musicianship, with John Patton Marshall & Percy Goetschius, 1919 Outlines of Music Theory, 1924 Piano Music: Its Composers and Characteristics (New York: Oliver Ditson, 1925) Epochs In Musical Progress (Boston, Massachusetts: Oliver Ditson Company, circa 1926) Sound and Its Relation to Music Piano Teaching: Its Principles and Problems --www.hymntime.com/tch/