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Archer T. Gurney

1820 - 1887 Person Name: Rev. Archer T. Gurney Hymnal Number: 108 Author of "Christ is risen, Christ is risen" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Gurney, Archer Thompson, was born in 1820, and educated for the legal profession. He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple, but in 1849 he entered Holy Orders. He held several appointments, including the Curacy of Buckingham, 1854-58; the Chaplaincy of the Court Church, Paris, 1858-71, and other charges. He died at Bath, March 21, 1887. His published works include:— Spring, 1853; Songs of the Present, 1854; The Ode of Peace, 1855; Songs of Early Summer, 1856; and A Book of Praise, 1862. To the Book of Praise he contributed 147 hymns. Very few of these are known beyond his own collection. He is widely known through his Easter hymn “Christ is risen, Christ is risen." His "Memory of the blest departed" (SS. Philip and James) is in the People's Hymnal, 1867. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology

Jay T. Stocking

1870 - 1936 Hymnal Number: 82 Author of "O Master workman of the race" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Clergyman; held posts at various NE churches; d. St. Louis, Mo.

John Farmer

1836 - 1901 Hymnal Number: 409 Composer of "FARMER" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Born: August 16, 1835, Nottingham, England. Died: July 17, 1901, at his home in Oxford, England. Buried: St. Sepulchre’s Cemetery, Jericho, Oxford, England. Eldest child of butcher John Farmer and milliner Mary Blackshaw Farmer, John learned to play the piano, violin, and harp when young. He was apprenticed to his uncle Henry Farmer, an organist, composer, and music teacher with a music and musical instrument business in Nottingham. At age 14, John went to study at the Leipzig Conservatory, then three years later under Andreas Spaeth in Coburg for a year. He returned to England in 1853, and entered his father’s lace business. After his mother’s death in 1856, he went to Zürich, Switzerland, where he taught music. He returned to England again in 1861, and became music master of Harrow School in 1864, staying there until 1885. He then accepted an invitation to become organist at at Balliol College, Oxford, where he founded the Balliol Concerts. During his career, Farmer composed oratorios, cantatas, church music, chamber music and numerous school songs, especially for Harrow School. One of his best known compositions was "Forty Years On," which he wrote at Harrow in 1872. While at Balliol, he composed Warwick School’s first school song, "Here’s a Song For All", in 1892. His other works include: Cinderella The oratorio Christ and His Soldiers The cricketing song "Willow the King" Music: FARMER © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Timothy B. Mason

1801 - 1861 Hymnal Number: 378 Composer of "ESHTEMOA" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Timothy Batelle Mason USA 1801-1861. Born at Medfield, MA, a younger brother of Lowell Mason, he became an author and wrote or co-authored several works, including: “The sacred harp” (1836), “The liberty minstrel” (1845), “The shawm: a library of church music” (1853), “A journey through Kansas” (1855). He founded the Eclectic Academy of Cincinnati, OH. In 1821 he married Alma Harding, and they had six children: Alma, Lucretia, Addison, Henry, Mary, and Abbie. His wife, Alma, died in 1836. In 1837 he married Abigail (Abby) K Hall, and they had three children: Edward, Helen, and William. He was an author, arranger, editor, and compiler of anthems, hymns, tune books, scores, Psalms, motets, and shape-note hymnals. He died from cancer at Cincinnati, OH. John Perry

H. J. Storer

1860 - 1935 Person Name: Henry J. Storer Hymnal Number: 433 Composer of "PATMOS" in The Presbyterian Hymnal b. Cambridge, Mass., 1860; d. Belmont, Mass., 1935; composer and teacher

S. Parkman Tuckerman

1819 - 1890 Person Name: Samuel P. Tuckerman Hymnal Number: 278 Composer of "HUMILITY" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Tuckerman, Samuel Parkman; b. 2/11/1819, Boston; d. 6/30/1890, Newport, R.I.; American organist and composer

Albert H. Hutchinson

Hymnal Number: 480 Author of "For all the blessings of the year" in The Presbyterian Hymnal

Charles Gordon Ames

1828 - 1912 Person Name: Charles G. Ames Hymnal Number: 355 Author of "Father in heaven" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Ames, Charles Gordon. (Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1828-April 15, 1912, Boston, Massachusetts). He was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1849 and spent some years as a home missionary in Minnesota. In 1859, he joined the Unitarian denomination and served several churches, his last pastorate being with the Church of the Disciples, Boston. In 1905, he wrote a hymn for the dedication of the new edifice of that Society, beginning "With loving hearts and hands we rear," which is included in The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914. A hymn beginning "Father in heaven, hear us today," is attributed to him in the Universalist Church Harmonies: Old and New, 1898, but is not found elsewhere. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

William A. Tarbutton

Hymnal Number: 435 Composer of "A LITTLE WHILE" in The Presbyterian Hymnal

Charles S. Newhall

1842 - 1935 Hymnal Number: 278 Author of "O Jesus, Master, when today" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Born: October 4, 1842, Boston, Massachusetts. Died: April 11, 1935, Berkeley, California. Newhall attended Amherst College and Union Theological Seminary, and was ordained a Congregational minister. He pastored over 25 years, then became associated with the United States Forestry Service and developed a reputation as an outstanding naturalist. He retired in 1905 to Berkeley, California. --Reynolds, William Jensen. Hymns of Our Faith. Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman Press, 1964. http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/n/e/w/newhall_cs.htm

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