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J. Calvin Bushey

1847 - 1929 Person Name: J. C. Bushey Author of "When They All Come Back Again" in Crowning Hymns No. 8 James Calvin Bushey USA 1847-1929. Born in Arendtsville, PA, Bushey was a singing teacher who lived in Ohio during the latter 19th century. He compiled several music collections, including “The Chorus Class” (1879), “Sparkling Gems” (1880), “Choral Climax” (1886), and “Magneic Melodies” (1892), all published by the Music firm of Will L. Thompson. Bushey moved to Peoria,IL, late in life and died there. John Perry

L. D. Huffstutler

Hymnal Number: 128 Composer of "[Some day a down the valley drear]" in Crowning Hymns No. 8 Leonard Duffie Huffstutler Born: June 17, 1887, Liberty, Alabama. Died: January 7, 1977, Dallas, Texas. Buried: Laurel Land Memorial Park, Dallas, Texas. Leonard was the son of Hugh Montgomery Huffstutler and Amelia E. Dickson, and husband of Sallie Cowart. He grew up on a Texas farm and attended Texas A&M University, College Station. He studied music with John Herbert, Rufus Cornelius, Homer Rodeheaver, and Arthur Sebren. He sang in quartets and taught in singing schools for the Hartford and Stamps-Baxter Music Companies. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Emory S. Peck

Hymnal Number: 1 Composer of "[From the good old gospel road I shall not stray]" in Crowning Hymns No. 8

Frank Pollock

Person Name: Rev. Frank Pollock Hymnal Number: 166 Author of "Christ Is Coming" in Crowning Hymns No. 8

A. F. Thomason

Hymnal Number: 119 Composer of "[Sweet the friendship of those that we love]" in Crowning Hymns No. 8

Jesse R. Varner

Person Name: J. R. V. Hymnal Number: 6 Author of "Beautiful Home" in Crowning Hymns No. 8

J. E. Williams

Hymnal Number: 63 Composer of "[O would you be a blessing true]" in Crowning Hymns No. 8

J. W. Dennis

1866 - 1947 Hymnal Number: 105 Composer of "[I'm singing the praise of Jesus my Lord]" in Crowning Hymns No. 8 Born: October 8, 1866, Lebanon, Missouri. Buried: Erick, Oklahoma.

May Justus

1898 - 1989 Hymnal Number: 101 Author of "I See a Gleam of Glory" in Crowning Hymns No. 8 Born: May 12, 1898, Del Rio, Tennessee. Died: November 7, 1989, Monteagle, Tennessee. Justus was born on May 12, 1898, in Del Rio, Tennessee, to a school-teacher father and stay-at-home mother. The family moved around quite frequently, but always stayed close to the Appalachian Mountains that helped shape Justus’s character and writing. “For I feel at home only in the mountains,” she has said in several interviews. She eventually attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville where she earned her Bachelors in Teaching. Early in her career, she grew fond of writing children’s literature—all dealing with the mountain folklore of her youth. Her first children’s book Gabby Gaffer was published in 1929 when Justus was thirty years old. The book was inspired by her students who always begged for one of Justus’s beloved stories after they finished their schoolwork. After her first publication, Justus continued to generate works, all while teaching. Her students inspired Justus to write more and more—and she did, dedicating countless stories to them. Justus’s love of children even led her to begin teaching handicapped students in her own home. After her retirement, Justus continued her work with children, operating a story-and-song program from her home, and maintaining a children’s library in her attic for twenty years. Justus won a bevy of awards for her literary achievements, including the Julia Ellsworth Ford Prize for Gabby Gaffer’s New Shoes in 1935, and the Boy’s Club Award in 1950 for Luck for Little LuLu, cementing her place as an adored children’s author. Justus passed away on November 7, 1989, at the age of 91. Posthumously, her Alma Mater established the May Justus Collection, housing bibliographies of all of her books, anthologies containing her short poems, photographs, manuscripts, sixteen handwritten letters, and other materials concerning her personal history. --www.mtsu.edu/tnlitproj/ (excerpts)