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Anna W. Waterman

Person Name: Mrs. A. W. W. Hymnal Number: 48 Author of "Yes, I Know!" in Special Voices No. 2

Lina Sandell Berg

Person Name: Lina Sandell Hymnal Number: 22 Author of "Day By Day" in Special Voices No. 2 See Sandell, Carolina, 1832-1903

1887 - 1958 Hymnal Number: 55 Composer of "[To the weary and sin-bound who sought for His aid]" in Special Voices No. 2 Bosworth, Burton B. (University Place, Nebraska, May 24, 1887--February 17, 1958, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida). He did not attend college, but took special courses in harmony. He was married in Zion City, Illinois, on August 4, 1907, to Margaret Robinson. He worked for some years in the U.S. Postal Service, leaving it in 1915 to enter evangelistic work with his brother, Fred F. Bosworth. In later years, he was affiliated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance as an evangelist, song-leader, and trombonist. --Information from his daughter, Lenore Dunlop, DNAH Archives

Oscar C. Eliason

Person Name: O. C. E. Hymnal Number: 2 Author of "A Name I Highly Treasure" in Special Voices No. 2

Charles A. Tindley, Jr.

Person Name: Chas. A. Tindley, Jr. Hymnal Number: 57 Composer of "[If the world from you withhold of its silver and its gold]" in Special Voices No. 2 Son of Charles Albert Tindley. Charles Albert Tindley, Jr., arranged some of his father's hymns.

M. J. Babbitt

1870 - 1937 Person Name: M. J. B. Hymnal Number: 29 Author of "There's No Friend to Me Like Jesus" in Special Voices No. 2 M. J. Babbitt was born in 1870 in Fulton County, Ill. He married Eva Roe in 1892. He was a singer who traveled as part of a team to various evangelistic meetings with the Southern Baptist Convention. He died in 1937 in Galesburg, Ill. Dianne Shapiro

May Taylor Roberts

Person Name: M. T. R. Hymnal Number: 52 Author of "The Meeting in the Air" in Special Voices No. 2

Frances Wheeler Davis

b. 1936 Person Name: F. W. Davis Hymnal Number: 27 Author of "Somebody Touched Heaven for Me" in Special Voices No. 2 Davis, Frances Mina (Wheeler). (Winnipeg, Manitoba, November 18, 1936-- ). Anglican. University of Manitoba, B.A., 1958; University of Toronto, M.A., 1962. In 1959, she married Dan Bryan Davis. She has contributed prose and verse to many Canadian periodicals; also to a collection of hymns privately published for use at St. George's Church, Ste.-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, from which one of her hymns found its way into The Hymn Book, (1971). --Hugh McKellar, DNAH Archives