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Margaret W. Deland

1857 - 1945 Person Name: Margaret Deland Hymnal Number: 134 Author of "Blow, golden trumpets, sweet and clear" in The New Hymnal for American Youth Margaret Deland (née Margaretta Wade Campbell) (February 23, 1857 – January 13, 1945) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She also wrote an autobiography in two volumes. She is generally considered part of the literary realism movement. Margaretya Wade Campbell was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (today a part of Pittsburgh) on February 23, 1857. Her mother died due to complications from the birth and she was left in the care of an aunt named Lois Wade and her husband Benjamin Campbell Blake. On May 12 1880, she married Lorin Fuller Deland. Her husband had inherited his father's publishing company, which he sold in 1886 and worked in advertising. It was at this period she began to write, first authoring verses for her husband's greeting-card business. Her poetry collection The Old Garden was published in 1886. Deland and her husband moved to Boston, Massachusetts and, over a four year span, they took in and supported unmarried mothers at their residence at 76 Mount Vernon Street on Beacon Hill. They also maintained a summer home, Greywood, overlooking the Kennebunk River in Kennebunkport, Maine. It was in this home that Canadian actress Margaret Anglin visited in 1909 and the two women looked over Deland's manuscript for The Awakening of Helena Richie. As Anglin reported, "I never spent a pleasanter time than I did while Mrs. Deland and I chugged up and down the little Kennbunkport [sic] River in a boat, talking over the future of Helena Richie." The Delands kept their summer home in Maine for about 50 years. In 1910, Deland wrote an article for the Atlantic Monthly recognizing the ongoing struggles for women's rights in the United States: "Restlessness!" she wrote, "A prevailing discontent among women — a restlessness infinitely removed from the content of a generation ago." During World War I, Deland did relief work in France; she was awarded a cross from the Legion of Honor for her work. "She received a Litt.D. from Bates College in 1920. In 1926, she was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters along with Edith Wharton, Agnes Repplier and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. The election of these four women to the organization was said to have "marked the letting down of the bars to women." By 1941, Deland had published 33 books. She died in Boston at the Hotel Sheraton, where she then lived, in 1945. She is buried at Forest Hills Cemetery. --en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M

Emilio Pieraccini

1828 - 1902 Person Name: E. Pieraccini Hymnal Number: 37 Composer of "SANTA TRINITA" in The New Hymnal for American Youth

James Stephens

b. 1847 Hymnal Number: 243 Author of "Little things that run and quail" in The New Hymnal for American Youth Stephens, James, was born at Southsea, March 18, 1847, and ordained to the curacy of Christ Church, Plymouth, 1873. He became Chaplain of Falmouth Roadstead, in 1876, and in 1880 Missioner under the Rev. W. H. M. H. Aitken in connection with the Church Parochial Mission Society. He has published Children's Sermons as Living Water for Little Pitchers, 1882, and Light for Little Lanterns, 1885, &c. His Mission Hymns, originally published in 1883, has been enlarged twice, and now contains 113 hymns. Of these he is the author of about twenty, all of which are marked in the index of first lines. Concerning the hymn "Another page of life Is open unto me," which is attributed to him, Mr. Stephens says: "It was given to me by a lady unknown to me in America, who wrote it, I think, after one of my sermons, or gave it me because it contained the truths I had dwelt upon in my discourses." (June 18, 1895.) --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

William Merriam Crane

1880 - 1958 Person Name: William M. Crane Hymnal Number: 86 Author of "Lord Jesus, Son of Mary" in The New Hymnal for American Youth

Robert Freeman

1878 - 1940 Hymnal Number: 233 Author of "Backward we look, O God of all our days" in The New Hymnal for American Youth

Leonard N. Fowles

Hymnal Number: 111 Composer of "PHOENIX" in The New Hymnal for American Youth

Louis Adolphe Coerne

1870 - 1922 Hymnal Number: 99 Composer of "SON OF MAN" in The New Hymnal for American Youth b. Feb. 27, 1870, Newark, NJ, d. Sept. 11, 1922, Boston, MA; conductor, teacher, and composer

Edna St. Vincent Millay

1892 - 1950 Hymnal Number: 40 Author of "O God, I cried, no dark disguise" in The New Hymnal for American Youth

Myrtle Koon Cherryman

1868 - 1950 Person Name: Myrtle K. Cherryman Hymnal Number: 281 Author of "O Native Land, how fair you seem" in The New Hymnal for American Youth [Mrs. Esmond G. Cherryman] MYRTLE KOON CHERRYMAN was born in Lisbon, a nearby village which immediately faded off the map when she left. Her father was a country doctor and taught her her first lessons as they drove about the country in the proverbial "horse and buggy". Her mother was interested in the drama and starred her daughter in all the village entertainments. One of her first appearances was as "Mary" in "Ten Nights in a Bar-room", presented in GRANDFATHER CHUBB'S Hotel. After graduation from Edna Chaffee Noble's School of Elocution in Detroit, Mrs. Cherryman returned to Grand Rapids and taught elocution. For several years she was with a local paper as society and music editor and wrote a daily column "In a Cheery Mood" which was composed of original verse and comment. Her best known books are "Rhymes for Rainy Days" and "Mother Goose Meddlings". This busy little lady is always in demand as a reader, an elocutionist, for book reviews or just to give advice. Her book reviews at the Y.W.C.A. and her Thursday classes at the Women's City Club are rare intellectual treats. She served as acting pastor at All Souls' Church for eighteen months. Mrs. Cherryman's greatest interests are her children. Her daughter, MRS. GLADYS TILGHMAN, is very active in the little theater movement in her home in the east; her son, REX CHERRYMAN, had gained an enviable reputation in the motion picture industry and on Broadway before his death while on a vacation trip to Paris in 1928. Mrs. Cherryman has always been active in the Ladies' Literary Club, in the Scribblers and has just been re-elected president of the Bards. She writes the reviews of the Saturday afternoon lectures; is active on the board of the Civic Players and is educational director of the Delphian and Travel Clubs and of the Gamma Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi. GRAND RAPIDS MIRROR, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Vol. I, No. 3, Fall, 1933, Pg. 12 (Interesting Personalities), Col. 3.