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M. Lowrie Hofford

1825 - 1888 Person Name: Rev. M. Lowrie Hofford Hymnal Number: 146 Author of "Saviour, Take my Hand in Thine" in Joyful Lays 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

William Stevenson

b. 1830 Person Name: Wm. Stevenson Hymnal Number: 183 Author of "Where will you go?" in Joyful Lays Late 19th Century Currently, our only data on Stevenson is that he was a minister. --http://www.hymntime.com/tch May be the same as William Fleming Stevenson.

Mary M. Adams

1840 - 1902 Person Name: Mrs. Mary M. Barnes Hymnal Number: 35 Author of "Here and There" in Joyful Lays Mary Jane Matthews, married C. M. Smith; married A. S. Barnes, 1883; married Charles Kendall Adams, 1890. She has written verses in the leisure of her happy life. First her hymns sang themselves from her heart and then her poems caroled their way from her soul. Few of her classmates in Packer Institute, where she was for the most part educated, knew that the popular Mary Mathews was not American born and a Brooklyn girl. Her birthplace was Ireland and her ancestry Irish. She is the author of thirty or more known hymns, many of them incorporated in song books of a score of more songs and ballads, several of which have been set to music, and are familiar favorites, and of many lyrics and sonnets. Excerpts from The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review, Volume 2

E. L. Andrews

Person Name: Mrs. E. L. Andrews Hymnal Number: 174 Author of "Abraham's Faith" in Joyful Lays Pseudonym. See also Crosby, Fanny, 1820-1915

Ernest Hawkins

1802 - 1868 Person Name: Rev. Ernest Hawkins Hymnal Number: 6 Author of "Lord, a Saviour's Love displaying" in Joyful Lays Hawkins, Ernest, B.D., son of Major Hawkins, born Jan. 25, 1802, at Hitchin, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1842). He was for sometime a Fellow of Exeter College. On taking Holy Orders he became Curate of Burwash, sub-librarian of the Bodleian Library, Curate of St. George's, Bloomsbury, Minister of Curzon Chapel, Mayfair, London, Prebendary of St. Paul's, and Canon of Westminster. From 1838 to his death, Oct. 5, 1866, he also acted as secretary to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Besides his prose works, which were not numerous, he published Verses in commemoration of the Third Jubilee of the S.P.G. (Society for the Propagation of the Gospel), 1851-2. To this little collection his hymns were contributed. The most extensively used of these, "Lord, a Saviour's love displaying" (Missions), has been adopted by many collections. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

T. F. Seward

1835 - 1902 Person Name: Theo. F. Seward Hymnal Number: 83 Composer of "[Hear the Master say, Go and work today]" in Joyful Lays

Mrs. C. L. Holmes

Person Name: Mrs. C. A. Holmes Hymnal Number: 121 Author of "Little Children, come to Jesus" in Joyful Lays

J. B. Ferguson

Hymnal Number: 19 Author of "Still they Go and Leave us" in Joyful Lays

A. M. Naylor

Person Name: Mrs. A. M. Naylor Hymnal Number: 55 Author of "They Build upon the Rolling Sand" in Joyful Lays

Annie S. Hawks

1835 - 1918 Person Name: Mrs. Annie S. Hawkes Hymnal Number: 157 Author of "Worthy the Lamb" in Joyful Lays Hawks, Annie Sherwood. Mrs. Hawks was born in Hoosick, N. Y., May 28, 1835, and has resided for many years at Brooklyn. Her hymns were contributed to Bright Jewels, Pure Gold, Boyal Diadem, Brightest and Best, Temple Anthems, Tidal Wave, and other popular Sunday School hymnbooks. They include "I need Thee every hour" (written April, 1872), "Thine, most gracious Lord," "Why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?" and others of the same type. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ==============