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Thomas Paxton

Hymnal Number: 42 Author of "God of the glorious sunshine" in The New Hymnal for American Youth

Laurence Binyon

1869 - 1943 Hymnal Number: 165 Author of "For mercy, courage, kindness, mirth" in The New Hymnal for American Youth

1842 - 1914 Person Name: Samuel B. Whitney Hymnal Number: 241 Composer of "CRUSADER" in The New Hymnal for American Youth Samuel Brenton Whitney; b. June 4, 1842, Woodstock, Vt..; d. there Aug. 3 at age of 72; organist and composer

William B. Forbush

1868 - 1927 Person Name: William Byron Forbush Hymnal Number: 162 Author of "God of our youth, to whom we yield" in The New Hymnal for American Youth Born: February 20, 1868, Springfield, Vermont. Died: October 23, 1927, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Buried: Quaker Burial Grounds, Hartford Road, Baltimore, Maryland. Forbush graduated from Dartmouth College (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1888, and became a principal in Amherst, New Hampshire, the next year. He served as pastor of the Riverside Congregational Church, Riverside, Rhode Island (1893-94), entered Union Theological Seminary, in 1889, graduating in 1892. He received an AM in 1890 and PhD in 1892 from the University of New York, and was acting pastor at the Rockaway Church in Brooklyn while enrolled in 1890. He served as pastor at Riverside Church in East Providence, Rhode Island (1892); Tabernacle Church, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia (1894-96); Warren, Massachusetts (1896-1908); Winthrop Church, Boston, Massachusetts (1905-06); and Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan (to 1913). In 1913, he became President of the American Institute of Child Life in Philadelphia, resigning in 1914 to pursue writing. He established his home in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where he lived the rest of his life and for a time headed the Woolman House, a school of social and religious education under the Quaker management of Swarthmore. In 1895, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Hanover College, Indiana. He founded the Knights of King Arthur in 1893, which attracted thousands of young boys. In 1918, he became General Editor of the publications of the University Society of New York, serving until 1924, when he became consulting editor of the John C. Winston Publishing Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His works include: The Queens of Avalon, 1911 The Coming Generation (New York & London: D. Appleton and Company, 1912) Manual of Stories, 1915 The Wonder Book of Myths and Legends (The John C. Winston Company: 1928) Myths and Legends of Greece and Rome --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Lauchlan MacLean Watt

1867 - 1957 Hymnal Number: 121 Author of "I bind my heart this tide" in The New Hymnal for American Youth

Alonzo P. Howard

1838 - 1902 Person Name: Alonzo P. Howard Hymnal Number: 89 Composer of "LONELY MIDNIGHT" in The New Hymnal for American Youth Born: June 20, 1838, Boston, Massachusetts. Died: August 28, 1902, York Harbor, Maine. Alonzo Potter Howard lived in Longwood, Massachusetts (now part of the town of Brookline). He worked for the Merrimac Chemical Company for four decades, and was its vice president and treasurer at the time of his death. All his music was published in Boston. His works include: Selected Christmas Carols, 1892 Sources-- Hughes, p. 441 New York Times, August 29, 1902 © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)