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Emilio Pieraccini

1828 - 1902 Person Name: E. Pieraccini Hymnal Number: d449 Author of "To thee, eternal soul, be praise" in Hymns of the Christian Life

1879 - 1942 Hymnal Number: d274 Author of "O God, hear thou the nation's prayer" in Hymns of the Christian Life Born: September 2, 1879, Garnavillo, Iowa. Died: February 27, 1942, Rochester, Minnesota. Maurer was educated at Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin (1904); Yale University (BD, MA, 1908); Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota (DD); Wooster College, Ohio (LLD 1924); Oberlin College (DD 1925); & Colorado College (LLD 1933). Ordained a Congregational minister, he served at the Jonathan Edwards Church in Northampton, Massachusetts, & Washington Gladden’s First Congregational Church in Columbus, Ohio. He went on to serve as president of Beloit College from 1924 until his death. http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/u/maurer_i.htm ========================== Irving Maurer 1924-1942 Excerpted from "Seven Presidents of Beloit College" by Dr. Robert Irrmann: In 1924 Beloit College turned to its earlier tradition of calling a son of the College to the presidency; on this occasion it was Irving Maurer of the Class of 1904. Irving Maurer had gone from Beloit to Yale, receiving both a Bachelor of Divinity degree and a Master of Arts in 1908. As a Congregational minister, Maurer held two significant pastorates prior to returning to Beloit: that of the Jonathan Edwards Church in Northampton, Massachusetts, and Washington Gladden's First Congregational Church in Columbus, Ohio. Irving Maurer brought a deep feeling for the older Beloit, a broad ranging humanistic outlook, and a devotion to the College Chapel as a forum for all interests of the College. Educated under Eaton's regimen, President Maurer continued to beautify the Vesper Service, stressing the role of music in its heightening effect. The earlier values of the Founders were those professed by President Maurer as animating forces in the life of the College: a non-sectarian, democratic spirit, characterized by simplicity and mental activity and by moral idealism in public life. He saw Beloit College as an institution, "cultural rather than professional, animated by a deep sense of truth, profoundly religious but knowing no antagonism between science and religion." To his students he stressed the charm and attraction of the world of books. His love of the arts was mirrored in the erection of the Theodore Lyman Wright Art Hall. His belief in student collegiality at the outset of a college career is seen in the construction of the men's dormitories in 1927-28. Faithful to the ideals of an earlier Beloit, and to the soundness of a broad humanism, Dr. Maurer carried the College through the depression years of the 1930s, and he presided over America's entry into World War II. Granted an extension of his presidency beyond age 65, so he might preside at the College's Centennial in 1946-1947, an untimely and unexpected death in February 1942 ended his presidency. http://www.beloit.edu/archives/history/presidents/irving_maurer/

Oliver Huckel

1864 - 1940 Hymnal Number: d305 Author of "O mind of God, broad as the sky" in Hymns of the Christian Life Born: January 11, 1864, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Died: February 3, 1940, Orlando, Florida. Buried: Second Congregational Church Cemetery, Greenwich, Connecticut. An 1887 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Huckel was known as the class poet, and spoke at the university’s celebration of the birth of American president George Washington, and at the 1887 graduation ceremony. He went on to study at Harvard University and Andover Theological Seminary, Newton, Massachusetts, and in 1890 was ordained a Congregational minister, and received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree from Boston University. He then pastored in Weymouth, Massachusetts, until 1894, when he went abroad to study at the University of Berlin and Oxford University. He returned to America in 1896, serving briefly in Amherst, Massachusetts, then moving to the Associate Congregational Church, Baltimore, Maryland, where he stayed the next two decades. In 1917, he moved to the Second Congregational Church in Greenwich, Connecticut, and retired in 1905. He also served as chaplain at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland;, Cornell University; and the University of Virginia. --www.hymntime.org/tch

Amelia DeF. Lockwood

1840 - 1910 Person Name: Lockwood Hymnal Number: d360 Author of "Savior, who thy life didst give" in Hymns of the Christian Life Lockwood, Amelia de F. In The Pilgrim Hymnal, Boston, 1904, the hymn, "Saviour, Who Thy life didst give" (For the Baptism of the Spirit), is given with this name as the writer. Beyond this we have no information. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Vera Campbell

Hymnal Number: d123 Author of "God of the nations, hear our call" in Hymns of the Christian Life Early 20th Century

James Welch

Hymnal Number: d213 Author of "Light of the lonely pilgrim's heart" in Hymns of the Christian Life

Louisa P. Loring

1854 - 1924 Person Name: Louisa F. Loring Hymnal Number: d319 Author of "O thou who turnest into morning" in Hymns of the Christian Life Loring, Louisa Putnam. (1854-1924) of Boston and Pride's Crossing, Massachusetts, compiled Hymns of the Ages, published in 1904. Her literary and musical standards were high, and the book handsomely printed, but its appear was limited and it had to compete with several other excellent hymnbooks then on the market for use among Unitarians. It included her own morning hymn beginning "O Thou who turnest into morning" (1902), also included in The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Frederick M. White

Hymnal Number: d455 Author of "We bless thee, Lord, for all this common life" in Hymns of the Christian Life

Frank E. A. Stoney

1874 - 1918 Person Name: F. E. A. Stoney Hymnal Number: d222 Author of "Lord, not for light in darkness do we pray" in Hymns of the Christian Life

Thomas W. Freckelton

1827 - 1903 Person Name: Thomas W. Freckleton Hymnal Number: d282 Author of "O God, who workest hitherto" in Hymns of the Christian Life Freckelton, Thomas Wesley, b. 1827. Minister of Unity Church, Islington. His hymn, "The toil of brain, or heart, or hand" (Christian Service), is in J. P. Hopp’s Collection, 1877 and in Horder's Congregational Hymnal, 1884. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)