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Joseph S. Cook

1859 - 1933 Person Name: Joseph Simpson Cook Hymnal Number: 503 Author of "Gentle Mary Laid Her Child" in Hymns of Grace Cook, Joseph Simpson. (Durham County, England, December 4, 1859--May 27, 1933, Toronto, Canada). Methodist. Wesleyan Theological College (Montreal) certificate, 1885; B.D., 1893; Illinois Wesleyan University, M.A., 1892; S.T.D., 1903. Pastorates in Ontario at Bayfield (1881-1882); Bluevale (1885-1887); Hensall (1888-1890); Ripley (1891-1893); Granton (1894-1896); Walkerville (1896-1898); Wallaceburg (1899-1902); Clinton (1903-1904); Ridgetown (1905-1908); Toronto (1909-1913, 1919-1925); Meaford (1914-1916); and Gravenhurst (1917-1918). He contributed articles and verse to many church-connected magazines. His best-known hymn, "Gentle Mary laid her child Lowly in a manger" won a 1919 contest of the Methodist weekly Christian Guardian. --Hugh McKellar, DNAH Archives

Homer F. Morris

Person Name: H. F. M. Hymnal Number: 374 Author of "Won't It Be Wonderful There?" in Hymns of Grace Born in Georgia, died in Texas. Dianne Shapiro, from Find a Grave website (accessed 6/17/2022)

Ben H. Price

Person Name: B. H. P. Hymnal Number: 30 Author of "Alone" in Hymns of Grace

Daniel Protheroe

1866 - 1934 Hymnal Number: 197 Arranger of "GOODWILL" in Hymns of Grace

T. N. Pannell

Hymnal Number: 393 Composer of "[When my soul is singing in that promised land above]" in Hymns of Grace

Charles D. Meigs

Person Name: C. D. Meigs Hymnal Number: 264 Author of "Others" in Hymns of Grace

S. C. Hanson

Hymnal Number: 383 Composer of "[I've heard them sing again and again]" in Hymns of Grace Late 19th Century

M. Lowrie Hofford

1825 - 1888 Hymnal Number: 70 Author of "Abide With Me; 'Tis Eventide" in Hymns of Grace Born: January 27, 1825, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Died: January 9, 1888, Trenton, New Jersey. Hofford attended Lafayette and Princeton, where he graduated in 1849. He studied theology at the Princeton seminary for a year, and became principal of the Camden collegiate institute. While there, he organized a church at Beverly, New Jersey, being licensed by the Presbytery in Philadelphia in 1852. In 1855, he was ordained an evangelist in Burlington, New Jersey. In 1860, he began teaching at the Trenton Institute, and in 1863 took charge of a military institute at Allentown, Pennsylvania that was later incorporated as Muhlenberg College; he served there as a professor and later president. He taught and pastored at Camden and Beverly, New Jersey, and Doylestown, Pennsylvania (1868-78), then became pastor at Morrisville, Pennsylvania. --www.hymntime.com/tch