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Harry J. Kurzenknabe

Person Name: Master Harry J. Kurzenknabe Hymnal Number: 86 Composer of "[There is no sorrow, there's no grief]" in Heavenly Carols Son of John Kurzenknabe. Cyber Hymnal

1799 - 1872 Person Name: Prof. T. C. Upham Hymnal Number: 98 Author of "Heaven With Us" in Heavenly Carols Upham, Thomas Cogswell, D.D., was born at Durfield, New Haven, Jan. 30,1799, and educated at Dartmouth College (1818), and at Andover (1821). Having entered the Congregational Ministry he became Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy at Bowdon College, in 1825, and retained the same to 1867. He died at New York, April 2, 1872. His publications were numerous and included Mental Philosophy (which was long and widely used); American Cottage Life; a volume of Poems, 1852, &c. Five of his hymns are given, with accompanying dates, in Hymns and Songs of Praise, &c, N. Y., 1874, as follows:— 1. Fear not, poor weary one. Help in Sorrow (1872). 2. Happy the man who knows. Obedience (1872). 3. 0 Thou great Ruler of the sky. Morning (1872). 4. 0 Thou great Teacher from the skies. Following Christ (1872). 5. 'Tis thus in solitude I roam. Omnipresence (1853). These hymns are limited in their use. In 1847 Upham published the Life and Religious Opinions and Experiences of Madam de la Mothe Guyon. . . Two vols., N. Y. In this work the anonymous translations from Madam Guyon's hymns are found, viz., (1) “By sufferings only can we know"; (2) "I would love Thee, God and Father"; (3) "'Tis not [by] the skill of human art." There are also additional translations of two of her hymns in the same work. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

J. W. Slaughenhaupt

Hymnal Number: 117 Author of "Are You Ready?" in Heavenly Carols

George H. Babcock

Person Name: Geo. H. Babcock Hymnal Number: 16 Author of "The Master Is Calling" in Heavenly Carols

Hannah F. Gould

1789 - 1865 Hymnal Number: 76 Author of "Waiting for the Chariot" in Heavenly Carols Gould, Hannah Flagg, was born at Lancaster, Vermont, in 1789. In her youth her father removed to Newbury-port, Massachusetts. She died in 1865. Her Poems were published in 1832, 1835, and 1841. From these Poems the following pieces are taken:— 1. Alone I walked the ocean strand. 2. Day of God, thou blessed day. (1841.) Sunday. 3. O Thou Who hast spread out the skies. (1832.) For Use at Sea. 4. O Father, to the fields that are ripe. Harvest. 5. Who, when darkness gathered o'er us. American National Hymn. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)