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Dorothy F. Blomfield

1858 - 1932 Hymnal Number: 484 Author of "O perfect Love, all human thought transcending" in The Presbyterian Hymnal See Gurney, Dorothy Francis

1819 - 1895 Person Name: Mrs. Maria F. Anderson Hymnal Number: 410 Author of "Our country's voice is pleading" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Anderson, Maria Frances. (Paris, France, January 30, 1819--October 13, 1895, Rosemont, Pennsylvania). Baptist. Daughter of Thomas F. Hill of Exeter, England. Married Rev. George W. Anderson, 1847. Author of several works on Baptists and missions for which she often used the pen name, L.M.N. Asked by George B. Ide, pastor of First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, to write a home mission hymn for the Baptist Harp (1849) in the same meter as Bishop Heber's "From Greenland's icy mountains." This hymn, "Our country's voice is pleading" was first sung in a home mission meeting at that Philadelphia church soon after the Baptist Harp was published. Another hymn appearing in the same collection and subtitled "The Bereaved Husband" begins "Yes she is gone, yet do not thou The goodness of the Lord distrust." --Deborah Carlton Loftis, DNAH Archives =========================================== Anderson, Maria Frances, born in Paris, France, Jan. 30, 1819, and married to G. W. Anderson, Professor in the University of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Two of her hymns are given in the Baptist Harp, 1849. Of these— "Our country's voice is pleading," has come into common use. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================= Anderson, Maria Frances, née Hill, p. 67, i., is the daughter of Thomas F. Hill, of Exeter, England, and a Baptist. She published in 1853 Jessie Carey, and in 1861, The Baptists in Sweden. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) =================

Peter Christian Lutkin

1858 - 1931 Person Name: Peter C. Lutkin Hymnal Number: 99 Composer of "LANIER" in The Presbyterian Hymnal

Walter Russell Bowie

1882 - 1969 Person Name: W. Russell Bowie Hymnal Number: 354 Author of "O Holy City seen of John" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Walter Russell Bowie (October 8, 1882–April 23, 1969), was a priest, author, editor, educator, hymn writer, and lecturer in the Episcopal Church (United States). See also in: Wikipedia

Nicholas Heins

1839 - 1910 Hymnal Number: 127 Composer of "BRECON" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Born: 1839, London, England. Died: 1910, Hereford, England.

John Haynes Holmes

1879 - 1964 Hymnal Number: 20 Author of "O God, whose law from age to age" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Born: November 29, 1879, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Died: April 3, 1964, New York City. Buried: Community Church of New York Unitarian Universalist, New York City. Holmes graduated from Harvard University, Phi Beta Kappa. His grandfather, John Cummings Haynes, manager of the Oliver Ditson music publishing house, helped pay his Harvard tuition. Holmes was ordained in 1904, and became minister of the Unitarian Third Congregational Church, Dorchester, Massachusetts. In February 1907, he became junior minister at the Church of the Messiah in New York City. His works include: I Speak for Myself, 1959 Collected Hymns, 1960 --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Sidney Lanier

1842 - 1881 Hymnal Number: 99 Author of "Into the woods my Master went" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Lanier, Sidney, born at Macon, Ga., Feb. 3, 1842, and educated at Oglethorpe College, Ga., where he graduated in 1860. He was one of the earliest volunteers in the Confederate Army, and after the war he devoted himself to music and literature. He died at Lynn, N.C., Sep. 7, 1881. His Poems were collected and pub. by his widow (New York), in 1884. Two of his hymns are:— 1. Thou God, Whose high eternal love. [Holy Matrimony.] This is dated "Macon, Sep. 1865," and is found in his Poems, p. 233. 2. Into the woods my Master went. This is a poem rather than a hymn, and might pass for a carol. It is given as No. 745 in the Methodist Hymnal, N.Y., 1905. In early life Lanier was a member of the Presbyterian Church, but gradually lost sympathy with organised Christianity. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ============ See also in: Wikipedia

Charles Steggall

1826 - 1905 Person Name: Charles H. Steggall Hymnal Number: 354 Composer of "MORWELLHAM" in The Presbyterian Hymnal

Edward C. Walker

1848 - 1872 Hymnal Number: 286 Composer of "ST. MARGUERITE" in The Presbyterian Hymnal

Adolph Baumbach

1830 - 1880 Hymnal Number: 493 Composer of "IN CORDE MEO" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Baumbach, Adolph was born about 1822 in Sachsen, Germany. He was a pianist and organist. About 1844 he emigrated to the United States and was a professor and teacher of music in Boston. In 1858-1860 he served as organist of Rev. Dr. Putnam's Church in Roxbury. He later taught music in Chicago and was an organist at Grace Church there. He died on April 3, 1880 in Chicago, Illinois. NN, Hymnary editor. Sources: composers-classical-music.com/b/BaumbachAdolph.htm and www.hymntime.com/tch/