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Juan N. De Los Santos

1876 - 1944 Person Name: J. N. de los Santos, 1876-1944 Translator of "La Cruz Tú Llevas, oh Jesús" in Himnario Metodista

1851 - 1925 Person Name: G. N. Allen, 1812-1877 Composer of "MAITLAND" in Methodist Hymn and Tune Book Born in Sutton-in-Ashfield, England, September 20, 1851. Studied at the Royal College of Organists in London, earning an FRCO. Served as organist at St. Luke's, Derby, and St. James', Nottingham, then emigrated to Denver, Colorado, where he succeeded John Gower as organist of St. John's Cathedral. He was a Founder of the American Guild of Organists. Died March 13, 1925. —AGO Founders Hymnal, p. 98-99 =============== Born: September 20, 1851, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England. Died: March 13, 1925, Denver, Colorado. Buried: St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, Denver, Colorado; his ashes were interred in the east wall of the choir. Educated in Nottingham & London & by James Turpin, a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, & Edmund Turpin, Houseley played the organ at St. Luke’s Church, Derby, England; St. Thomas’ Church, Nottingham; of the Sacred Harmonic Society of Nottingham; and was music lecturer at the college in Nottingham. He lived in Denver, Colorado, from 1888 to at least 1901. He became organist and choir director at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral in 1892 when John Gower left that post; he served there the rest of his life. He was also for 30 years organist of Temple Emmanuel in Denver, for 25 years organist and music director at the Rocky Mountain and Colorado bodies of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasons, director of the Denver Symphony Orchestra, and director of the Denver Choral Society, which won a $1,000 prize in a Denver competition in 1896, and first prize at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904. Housley also directed a men’s chorus called the Apollo Club, played the organ at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church and the Oakes Home (an old age home run by the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado), was on the faculties of the Denver Conservatory of Music and the University of Colorado, and was on the board of the Musical Society of Denver. A prolific composer, he wrote anthems, pieces for mixed chorus, arrangements for women’s voices, men’s voices, songs, piano works, organ pieces, and six operas, including Native Silver and Juggler. --www.hymntime.org/tch

Abraham Fernández

1875 - 1965 Translator of "Deberá Jesús Llevar Su Cruz" in Himnario Bautista

John J. Moore

Person Name: John J Moore Author of "The Aged Sire Has Gone to Rest" in The A.M.E. Zion Hymnal

I. I. Leslie

Person Name: I. I. L. Arranger of "Cross and Crown" in The New Jubilee Harp Leslie, Dr. I.I. An Advent Christian writer. --Doris Colby, DNAH Archives

T. B. Gilbert

Person Name: Thomas B. Gilbert Author (vss. 2-5) of "Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone" in His Fullness Songs

K. Y.

Author of "How Shall I Look Upon That Brow?" in The Cyber Hymnal

Thomas Davis

1804 - 1887 Author of "Sweet Is The Light, What'er It Be" in The Cyber Hymnal Davis, Thomas, M.A., son of Dr. H. F. Davis, Rector of All Saints, Worcester, and of Pendock, Worcestershire, was born Feb. 15, 1804. He was educated for the law, and practised as a solicitor for two years. He then entered Queen's College, Oxford, and graduated B.A. in 1833, and M.A. in 1837. On taking Holy Orders he became Curate of All Saints, Worcester. In 1839 he was preferred as Incumbent of Roundhay, Leeds. Mr. Davis's works, in which his hymns appeared, are:— (1) Devotional Verse for a Month, 1855; (2) Songs for the Suffering, 1859; (3) The Family Hymnal, 1860; (4) Hymns, Old and New, for Church and Home, and for travel by Land or Sea; consisting of 223 selected, and 260 Original Hymns, Lond., Longmans, 1864; and (5) Annus Sanctus; or, Aids to Holiness in Verse for every day in the Year, 1877. (6) Help Homewards in Verse for Every Day in the Year, 1883. The hymns given in the earlier of these works are generally repeated in the later. Of Mr. Davis's hymns the best Known are "O Paradise Eternal"; "Holiest, holiest, hearken in love"; "’Tis sweet on earth to wake at morn"; "Let every voice for praise awake"; and "Baptized into the Name." Many of Mr. Davis's hymns are of considerable merit, and his works should be consulted by all hymn-book compilers. The "selected " hymns in his Hymns Old & New are marked, the rest are original. From his various works the following hymns are in common use outside of his Hymns Old and New in addition to those named and others, which are annotated under their respective first lines:— i. From Devotional Verse for a Month, 1855. 1. Come, Holy Spirit, come, Mercies revealing. Whitsuntide. 2. Dear is the eye of earthly love. The loneliness of Jesus. 3. Heavy and dark the clouds o'erhung. Good Friday. 4. I will not mourn my weakness, Lord. Affliction. ii. From the Family Hymnal, 1860. 5. Shall I fear, O earth, thy bosom? Easter. 6. Sing, ye seraphs, in the sky. Universal Praise. iii. From Hymns Old and New, 1864. 7. Day by day and year by year. Old and New Year. 8. Does one small voice within the soul? Conscience. 9. Faith alone breathes calm devotion. The Calm of Faith. 10. Father, vouchsafe us grace divine. Morning. 11. Great Father of our race. God the Father. 12. How kind our Father's voice. Morning. 13. I thank Thee, Lord, for every night. Morning. 14. In holy contemplation, Give me, &c. After a Bad Harvest. 15. Let every voice for praise awake. God is Love. 16. Lord, send Thy Spirit from above. For an Increase of Charity. 17. My Father kept me through the night. Morning. 18. Our God is love, O sweetly sing. God is Love. 19. The floods lift up their waves, O God. For use at Sea. 20. The Lord our God is King. God the King Eternal. 21. To all Thy servants who this day. Holy Communion. 22. To Thine own peaceful skies. Ascension. 23. What though fields of earth have yielded. After a Bad Harvest. iv. From Annus Sanctus, 1877. 24. Christian, be thou content. Quinquagesima Sunday. 25. Keep Thou my heart that it may ne'er. Slow to Wrath. 26. More light, more life, more love. Light, Life and Love desired. 27. Unworthy though I be. Divine Guidance desired. 28. Why comes this fragrance on the summer breeze? God is Love. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) =================== Davis, Thomas, M.A., p. 281, ii. Died at Roundhay, Nov. 11, 1887. Another of his hymns from his Devotional Verse, &c, 1855, "Two temples doth Jehovah prize" (The Temple of the Body), is also in common use. There are 23 of his hymns in Soden's Universal Hymn Book, 1885. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Henry Ward Beecher

1813 - 1887 Person Name: Henry W. Beecher Author (v. 4-5) of "Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone?" in Timeless Truths Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887) was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial. See more in: Wikipedia