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Jessie Seymour Irvine

1836 - 1887 Hymnal Number: 531 Composer of "CRIMOND" in Songs Of The Church Jessie Seymour Irvine United Kingdom 1836-1887. Born at Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland, the daughter of a parish minister of the Church of Scotland who served at Dunottar, Peterhead, and Crimond in Aberdeenshire, she became an organist, in training at the town of Banff. In 1871, while living in Crimond, she composed a tune for the metrical version of Psalm 23 as an exercise for a composition class. It was first performed at evening worship at Auchterless Parish Church. Not satisfied with her own work, she asked for help to reharmonize it from musician, David Grant, from Aberdeen. At the time, Grant was collaborating with associates compiling hymns and metrical Psalms from across north Scotland intending to publish them in a new hymnal. “The Northern Psalter” was published in 1872, became popular, and over 70,000 copies were sold. For years the hymn tune was credited to Grant, but Jessie’s sister wrote a letter to the hymnal editors claiming her sister wrote the tune, harmonized by Grant. She is now credited by most as the original composer. She died in Aberdeen, Scotland. She is commemorated by a set of four etched glass panels installed inside Crimond Parish Church in 2002. The hymn was played at Princess Elizabeth’s wedding (later Queen Elizabeth) to Philip Mountbatten in 1947. John Perry

W. Oliver Cooper

1885 - 1963 Hymnal Number: 680 Author of "Heaven Will Surely Be Worth It All" in Songs Of The Church Use pseudonym Oscar J. Schwab

Robert S. Arnold

1905 - 2003 Person Name: R. S. A. Hymnal Number: 385 Author of "No Tears in Heaven" in Songs Of The Church

John S. Norris

1844 - 1907 Person Name: J. S. Norris Hymnal Number: 710 Composer of "[I can hear my Savior calling]" in Songs Of The Church 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

William Miller

1801 - 1878 Hymnal Number: 482 Composer of "[O land of rest, for thee I sigh!]" in Songs Of The Church

Emmett S. Dean

1876 - 1951 Hymnal Number: 303 Composer of "[I've a home prepared where the saints abide]" in Songs Of The Church Born: June 29, 1876, Conecuh County, Alabama. Died: October 8, 1951, Waco, Texas. Buried: Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, Texas. A Methodist, Dean taught singing schools for 40 years, wrote some 500 songs, and for four years headed the Trio Music Company. With Franklin Eiland and Homer Elliott, he founded the Southern Development Normal Music School in Waco, Texas. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Charles E. Moody

Person Name: C. E. M. Hymnal Number: 308 Author of "Kneel at the Cross" in Songs Of The Church

Mrs. H. B. Steele

1826 - 1902 Person Name: Harriet B. Steele Hymnal Number: 569 Author of "To Our Redeemer's Glorious Name" in Songs Of The Church Steele, Harriet, née Binney, daughter of Amos Binney, D.D., and wife of Daniel Steele, D.D., wrote "Children, loud hosannas singing" (Palm Sunday), at the request of the Editors of the Methodist Episcopal Hymnal in 1877. Published therein, 1878. (Nutter's Hymn Studies, 1884, p. 338.) --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee

1786 - 1868 Person Name: Xavier Schnyder Hymnal Number: 441 Composer of "HORTON" in Songs Of The Church

Annie F. Bourne

Hymnal Number: 126 Composer of "["Give me thy heart," says the Father above]" in Songs Of The Church Pseudonym See also Kirkpatrick, William J. (William James), 1823-1921

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