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Harriett H. Pierson

Person Name: Hattie H. Pierson Hymnal Number: 62 Author of "The Hand That was Wounded" in Songs for Men

1873 - 1950 Person Name: Mary Fraser Hymnal Number: 90 Author of "Reckon on God" in Songs for Men Maud Frazer Jackson USA 1873-1950. It is surmised she lived in PA and/or NJ. She was a religious author, poet, and music compiler, who published her collections of music, including 400 hymns called “Hymns about forgiveness!”, “Wayside Song” (1922), and “Starlight & lamplight” (1928). Her poems were sometimes furnished to newspapers around the country and printed. John Perry

George W. Crofts

1842 - 1909 Person Name: G. W. Crofts Hymnal Number: 119 Author of "Don't Keep Jesus Waiting" in Songs for Men We have little data on Crofts, except that he was a minister. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Ernest O. Sellers

1869 - 1952 Person Name: E. O. Sellers Hymnal Number: 67 Composer of "[Jesus Thou joy of loving hearts]" in Songs for Men

H. B. Hartzler

1840 - 1920 Person Name: Rev. H. B. Hartzler Hymnal Number: 78 Author of "The Riches of Love" in Songs for Men Hartzler, Henry Burns. (York County, Pennsylvania, March 23, 1840--1920). Evangelical. Licensed 1869, pastor Trinity Church, York Penn., in 1873-1874; editor of The Messenger in 1870s and 1880s; taught Bible in Mt. Hermon school, Northfield, Massachusetts. Was associated with D.L. Moody. Went with the United Evangelical CHurch in the schism, was editor of its Evangel 1894-1902. Editor of and hymn-contributor to Evangelischer Gesangbuch and Hymn Book of the United Evangelical Church. Bishop of that denomination 1902-1910. Most famous hymn was "Go and seek the lost and dying." --Ellen Jane Lorenz, DNAH Archives

J. Gilchrist Lawson

1874 - 1946 Hymnal Number: 5 Author of "How It Saves" in Songs for Men James Gilchrist Lawson, 1874-1946 Buried: Mount Olive Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois. James Gilchrist Lawson (1874-1946) was an American evangelist and hymn writer who compiled several best-selling books of Christian biography and poetry. Lawson’s works include: Deeper Experiences of Famous Christians (Chicago, Illinois: Glad Tidings Publishing Company, 1911) Did Jesus Command Immersion?, 1915 Greatest Thoughts About the Bible, 1918 Greatest Thoughts About God, 1920 The World’s Best Humorous Anecdotes, 1923 The World’s Best Conundrums and Riddles of all Ages, 1924 The World’s Best Epigrams, 1924 The "International" Christian Worker’s New Testament, 1924 The Marked Reference Bible The Best Loved Religious Poems, 1933 Farm Animals, 1935 The Book of Dogs, 1936 Seeing America, 1936 The Christian Worker’s New Testament and Psalms Famous Missionaries, 1941 --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Mrs. C. L. Shacklock

Person Name: C. L. Shacklock Hymnal Number: 102 Author of "Drifting Away" in Songs for Men

Mrs. F. A. F. Wood White

Person Name: F. A. F. White Hymnal Number: 82 Author of "That Beautiful Land" in Songs for Men

Mabel Johnston Camp

1871 - 1937 Person Name: M. J. C. Hymnal Number: 80 Author of "Jesus, Saviour" in Songs for Men The Cyber Hymnal™, citing Hustad, Donald Paul, Dictionary-Handbook to Hymns for the Living Church; Carol Stream, Illinois: Hope Publishing Company, 1978, pp. 216-17, says: Born: November 25, 1871, Chanute, Kansas. Died: May 25, 1937, Chicago, Illinois. A banker’s daughter, gifted pianist and singer, Mabel went to a girls’ school in Steubenville, Ohio. She married lawyer Norman H. Camp, and they became Christians together at one of Dwight Moody’s Bible Union classes taught by William Newell. She and her husband were members of the Moody Memorial Church. It also lists 14 first lines of hymns she is said to have written, as well as links to hymns using three tunes she composed.