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Amelia DeF. Lockwood

1840 - 1910 Person Name: Amelia de F. Lockwood, 1840-1910 Author of "Savior, Who Thy Life Didst Give" in The Cyber Hymnal 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)

T. Martin Towne

1835 - 1912 Person Name: T. M. T. Arranger of "OFT IN THE STILLY NIGHT" in Welcome Songs Towne, T. Martin. (Coleraine, Franklin County, Massachusetts, May 31 [sic], 1835-- ). Methodist. Attended Williston's Seminary, East Hampton, Mass. 1855 to Hudson, New York, then Albany. Taught in Ypsilanti, Michigan, then Detroit. Settled in Janesville, Wisconsin. Served in the Civil War. Settled in Chicago; married Belle Kellogg. Keith C. Clark, DNAH Archives

C. C. Cox

1816 - 1882 Translator of "Haste not! Haste not! Do not Rest!" in Union Hymnal, Songs and Prayers for Jewish Worship. 3rd ed. Revised and enlarged. Cox, Christopher Christian, M.D., was a Maryland physician, and long prominent in the public service. Born at Baltimore, Aug. 28, 1816, and graduated at Yale College, 1835. He practised medicine in Baltimore, 1838, and in Talbot County, Maryland, 1843. In 1861 he became Brigade Surgeon U. S. A., and resided in Washington. He died Nov. 25, 1882. He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. His hymns in common use are:— 1. Silently the shades of evening. Evening. Written in 1840 or 1846, and published in Woodworth's Cabinet, 1847, with music. It is much used in American hymn-books. 2. The burden of my sins, 0 Lord. Lent. Appeared in the Cantate Domino, Boston, 1859, together with two additional originals and two translations. These hymns are unknown to English collections. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

David C. Cook

1850 - 1927 Author of "Perfect in Thee" in Welcome Songs

H. C. Leonard

1818 - 1880 Author of "Shepherd of the Holy Hills" in The Cyber Hymnal Henry C. Leonard Died: March 7, 1880, Gloucester, Massachusetts. Leonard served as a chaplain of the 3rd Maine Regiment during the American civil war. At the time of his death, he was pastor of a Universalist Church in Annisquam, Massachusetts. Sources New York Times, March 8, 1880 --www.hymntime.com/tch ================================== Leonard, Rev. Henry Codman. (Northwood, New Hampshire, April 25, 1818--March 7, 1880, Pigeon Cove, Massachusetts). Chaplain in the Union Army; Universalist minister who served churches in New England; in Albany, New York; and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Editor and author. His hymns beginning "Bells, ring out with cheerful might" and "Shepherd of the holy hills" are included in Church Harmonies: New and Old (1895). --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Brooke Herford

1830 - 1903 Author of "Lo! The Day Of Days Is Here (Hymn for Easter Day)" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: 1830, Altrincham, Manchester, England, Died: December 21, 1903, Hampstead, Middlesex, England. Buried: Hale, Cheshire, England. Son of John and Sarah Herford, Brooke received his early education in Manchester, at the school of John Relly Beard. At age 14, he left school and went into his father’s counting house for four years. As he became engaged with the local Sunday School, and at the Mosley Street Mission School, he eventually decided upon the ministry as a career. At age 18, he enrolled at Manchester New College (now at Oxford, but then at Manchester). At age 21, he began preaching at Todmorden, Yorkshire and, as his college would not support him, he withdrew from school to be a full time minister. After five years at Todmorden, his moved to the Upper Chapel, Sheffield, and nine years later, to Strangeways Free Church in Manchester. He spent 11 years there, also tutoring at the Home Missionary College. He then moved to America to become pastor of the First Unitarian Society in Chicago, Illinois (1874-91). He also served as Corresponding Secretary (1878-79) and president (1880-81) of the Chicago Literary Club; pastor of the Arlington Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts (1882-92); and on the faculty of Harvard University, before returning to England in 1893. Herford’s works include: A Protestant Poor Friar: The Life-Story of Travers Madge A The Story of Religion in England A Sermons of Courage and Cheer A The Small End of Great Problems Anchors of the Soul --www.hymntime.com/tch/