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Luther G. Presley

1887 - 1974 Person Name: L. G. P. Hymnal Number: 42 Author of "Rock of Ages Keep My Soul" in Sing Aloud Luther G. Presley (March 6, 1887 – December 6, 1974) was a songwriter, musician, and composer, who is best-known for writing the lyrics to the gospel song "When the Saints Go Marching In". Luther G. Presley was born on Beckett Mountain in Faulkner County, Arkansas on March 6, 1887. He studied music beginning at the age of 14, where he excelled. He soon became choir director. He wrote his first song, "Gladly Sing," when he was 17. He furthered his study in singing and music, under renowned teachers. Work Luther Presley wrote the lyrics for the gospel spiritual "When the Saints Go Marching In", in 1937, while Virgil O. Stamps composed the music and melody to the famous work. Luther Presley was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame in 2008. --wikipedia.org

Herbert Buffum

1879 - 1939 Hymnal Number: 60 Author of "Rose of Sharon" in Sing Aloud Herbert Buffum was born in La Fayette, Illinois 13 November 1879. He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He started preaching at seventeen years of age. He did city mission work up and down the Pacific Coast and later in small towns in Kansas. He began publishing hymns at the age of eighteen. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Albert E. Brumley

1905 - 1977 Person Name: A. E. B. Hymnal Number: 113 Author of "I Dreamed I Met Mother and Daddy" in Sing Aloud Born: October 29, 1905, near Spiro, Oklahoma. Died: November 15, 1977, Springfield, Missouri. Buried: Fox Cemetery, Powell, Missouri. Brumley attended the Hartford Musical Institute in Hartford, Arkansas, and sang with the Hartford Quartet. He went on to teach at singing schools in the Ozarks, and lived most of his life in Powell, Missouri. He worked for 34 years a staff writer for the Hartford and Stamps/Baxter publishing companies, then founded the Albert E. Brumley & Sons Music Company and Country Gentlemen Music, and bought the Hartford Music Company. He wrote over 800 Gospel and other songs during his life; the Country Song Writers Hall of Fame inducted him in 1970. © The Cyber Hymnal™. Used by permission. (www.hymntime.com)

Annie Herbert

1844 - 1932 Hymnal Number: 121 Author of "When the Mists Have Rolled Away" in Sing Aloud Annie Elvira Hubbart (Herbert) Barker USA 1844-1932. Born in Leon, NY, she received some education at Randolph Academy in her home county. She later taught there herself. Gospel songs were becoming popular in evangelistic services in the 19th century. She became a successful public recitalist, studying at the Buffalo School of Oratory and with Anna Randall Diehl of New York and Professor Leonard of Boston. After marrying in 1879, she moved to Montana with her husband, from that area. Along with other pioneers. She claimed those years as the best of her life. In 1888 they moved again to San Rafael, CA, he being an invalid at that time. She lived there the rest of her life. John Perry

W. Oliver Cooper

1885 - 1963 Hymnal Number: 117 Author of "Looking for a City" in Sing Aloud Use pseudonym Oscar J. Schwab

James C. Moore

1888 - 1962 Person Name: J. C. M. Hymnal Number: 26 Author of "Sweet Heaven" in Sing Aloud

John S. Norris

1844 - 1907 Person Name: J. S. Norris Hymnal Number: 81 Composer of "[I can hear my Savior calling]" in Sing Aloud Rv John Samuel Norris United Kingdom/USA 1844-1907. Born at West Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK, he emigrated to the US when young and attended school in Canada. He was ordained a Methodist minister in Oshawa, ON, in 1868. Over the next decade he pastored at churches in Canada, NY, and WI. He switched to the Congregationalist denomination in 1878, serving churches in Mondovi, Shullsburg, and Hixton, WI, and Grand Rapids, MI. From 1882 -1901 he held pastorates at Ames, Webster City, Parkersburg, Peterson, and Tripoli, IA.. He died in Chicago, IL. John Perry

George Thomas Speer

1891 - 1966 Person Name: G. T. Speer Hymnal Number: 158 Composer of "[Some glad morning we shall see Jesus in the air]" in Sing Aloud

Marvin P. Dalton

1906 - 1987 Hymnal Number: 117 Composer of "[Here among the shadows living in a lonely land]" in Sing Aloud Marvin Price Dalton born in Arkansas, died in Oklahoma Dianne Shapiro, from Find a Grave website (accessed 6/20/2022)

Otis L. McCoy

1897 - 1995 Hymnal Number: 63 Composer of "[With trusting heart I seek Thee Lord]" in Sing Aloud McCoy, Otis Leon. (Ninety-Six, South Carolina, February 17, 1897--?). Church of God. Minister, music editor, and songwriter. Graduate of James D. Vaughan Conservatory. Organized the music department of the Church of God Publishing House as Tennessee Music and Printing Company in 1931. Served as music editor for a total of 23 years. Retired in 1961 and continued to be quite active as a tenor soloist. Best known songs: "Naturalized for Heaven" and "Send Me." --Charles L. Towler, DNAH Archives