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L. Briggs Mitchell

Person Name: L. B. M. Hymnal Number: 54 Author of "The music of heaven" in Beautiful Songs; a new and choice collection of songs for the sunday school. Also, a responsive service for each month in the year

Anna Shipton

1815 - 1901 Hymnal Number: 18 Author of "Call Them In!" in Beautiful Songs; a new and choice collection of songs for the sunday school. Also, a responsive service for each month in the year Anna Savage Shipton United Kingdom 1815-1901. Born at Evesham, Wychavon, Worcester, England, she was the daughter of Evesham solicitor, Edward Savage. She inherited land from her father when he died in 1839 (her mother had died in 1817, and her brother had emigrated to Australia), and rented out some of the land. She married Joseph Shipton in 1848, but separated in 1852, allegedly due to his infidelity. Her estranged husband died in 1860. She traveled extensively and continued writing poetry and essays. She wrote 20+ religious books, and many leaflets, mostly religious. Among her books the following: a hymns and meditations book entitled, “Whispers in the palms. Hymns and meditations” (1855); Precious gems for the Savior’s diadems” (1862); “The brook in the way-original hymns” (1864); “Tell Jesus- Recollections of E Gosse”; “The cottage on the hock-an allegory”. After living in mainland Europe from the mid-1860s to the 1880s, she returned to the UK and settled in Sussex, then in St Leonard’s on the Sea, East Sussex, England, where she eventually died. John Perry =================== Shipton, Anna. Concerning this writer we can ascertain no details beyond the fact that she published:— (1) Whispers in the Palms. Hymns and Meditations. London, W. Yapp, 1855; second edition, augmented, 1857. (2) Precious Gems for the Saviour's Diadem, 1862. (3) The Brook in the Way; Original Hymns, 1864. (4) Tell Jesus: Recollections of E. Gosse. (5) The Cottage on The Hock, an Allegory. Also other smaller books. Her hymns in common use include:— i. From her Whispers in the Palms, 1855-57. 1. Down in the pleasant pastures. The Good Shepherd. 2. Father, My cup is full. Gethsemane. 3. How shall I praise Thee, O my God? Praise. 4. Jesus, Master, hear my cry. Blind Bartimaeus. ii. From her other Works. 5. Call them in, the poor,the wretched (1862). Home Missions. 6. Praise God, ye gladdening smiles of mom. Ps. cxlviii. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

J. H. Leslie

Hymnal Number: 110 Composer of "[Closer, still closer, my Savior, to thee]" in Beautiful Songs; a new and choice collection of songs for the sunday school. Also, a responsive service for each month in the year

Eliza M. Sherman

Hymnal Number: 142 Author of "The Father's Call" in Beautiful Songs; a new and choice collection of songs for the sunday school. Also, a responsive service for each month in the year

John O. Foster

Person Name: Rev. John O. Foster Hymnal Number: 130 Author of "Sweet, joyful, glorious morn" in Beautiful Songs; a new and choice collection of songs for the sunday school. Also, a responsive service for each month in the year 19th Century Currently, our only data on Foster is that he was a minister. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

R. C. Waterston

1812 - 1893 Person Name: R. C. Waterton Hymnal Number: 162 Author of "One Sweet Flower" in Beautiful Songs; a new and choice collection of songs for the sunday school. Also, a responsive service for each month in the year Waterston, Robert Cassie, M.A., son of Robert Waterston, was born at Kennebunk, in 1812, but has resided from his infancy at Boston, Massachusetts. He studied Theology at Cambridge; had for five years the charge of a Sunday school for the children of seamen; was associated for several years with the Pitts Street Unitarian Chapel, Boston; and then pastor for seven years of the Unitarian Church of the Saviour in the same city. Much of his time has been given to literature, and a long list of his papers of various kinds is given in Putnam's Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith, 1874. He also interested himself largely in educational matters. He contributed one hymn to the American Unitarian Cheshire Pastoral Association Christian Hymns, 1844; to his own popular Supplement to Greenwood's Psalms and Hymns, 1845, and others to various works. Putnam gives 20 poetical pieces in his Singers and Songs, &c, 1874, amongst which are the following, which are in common use at the present time:— 1. In darkest hours I hear a voice. Looking unto Jesus. Contributed to Putnam's Singers and Songs, &c, 1874, and found in a few collections. 2. In each breeze that wanders free. Nature and the Soul. Published before 1853, and again in Putnam, 1874. The hymn "Nature, with eternal youth," in Hedge and Huntington's Hymns for the Church of Christ, 1853, No. 185, is composed of stanza iv-vii. of this piece. 3. One sweet [bright] flower has drooped and faded. Death of a Child. Appeared in the American Unitarian Cheshire Pastoral Association Christian Hymns, 1844, No. 668, and again in Putnam, 1874, as “One bright flower, &c." It is in several collections. In the Christian Hymns the heading is "Death of a Pupil;" and Putnam, "On the Death of a Child. Sung by her classmates." In Putnam there are other pieces by him which are worthy of attention. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Mrs. R. N. Turner

1857 - 1957 Hymnal Number: 57 Author of "Come, All Who Love the Lord" in Beautiful Songs; a new and choice collection of songs for the sunday school. Also, a responsive service for each month in the year Fronie Bell Turner, married to Rev. R. N. Turner, pastor in the Protestant Episcopal Church.