Person Results

W. H. Whitworth

Hymnal Number: d133 Author of "Heavenly joys" in Crowning Theme; Nos. 1 and 2 combined

b. 1854 Hymnal Number: d96 Author of "Beautiful home of the blest" in Crowning Theme; Nos. 1 and 2 combined Adoniram Judson Buchanan was born on December 1854 in Linn County, Missouri. In 1867, shortly after the American civil war, he moved with his family to a community near Sherman in Grayson County, Texas, purchasing several acres of land and settling near the Elmont Community, a few miles west of Van Alstyne, Texas. NN, Hymnary

Arthur W. French

Hymnal Number: d28 Author of "Gates of the beautiful" in Crowning Theme; Nos. 1 and 2 combined 19th Century

William B. Blake

1852 - 1938 Hymnal Number: d108 Author of "Room at the cross for a trembling [sinner's, sinsick] soul" in Crowning Theme; Nos. 1 and 2 combined William Burdine Blake, 1852-1938. William B. Blake, Sr., was born January 21, 1852, in London, Ohio; went to Virginia in the early 1870s and became connected with the music publishing house of the Ruebush-Kieffer Company, and remaining with this firm until 1889, when he moved to Ronceverte. He married Miss Alice Mary Horne, of Augusta county, Virginia, a daughter of Strother P. and Sarah Home. (Strother P. Horne was a Confederate soldier throughout the Civil war.) To this union were born seven children: Charles Stanley Blake, Bessie Mabel, William B,. Jr.. Henry St. John, Robert Russell, Mary Ellen and Edward Lester. At Ronceverte, Mr. Blake, Sr., associated himself in partnership with J. W. Hess in the publication of the Ronceverte News, a newly-established paper in the new lumber town, buying out the interest of Richard Burke, who had been a prominent figure in West Virginia journalism for a number of years. Burke had been the publisher of a vigorous newspaper at Union, Monroe county. About the year 1891, Mr. Blake bought out the interest of Mr. Hess and became the sole proprietor of the enterprise, changing the name of the paper to the Valley Messenger and News. This publication continued until April 21, 1901. Several years prior to this, in December, 1897, The West Virginia News had been established with Mr. Blake as publisher, and from one newspaper plant two newspapers were issued until April 21, 1901, when the latter publication, which covered a more extensive field, absorbed the Valley Messenger. This consolidation brought to the newer paper the good will of the older and the growth of the West Virginia News has been steady and continuous to this day. At the present time and for a number of years the News has enjoyed a larger circulation than any other weekly newspaper published in the State. History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole, Lewisburg, WV, 1917 (accessed 12/25/2023 from http://www.leighlarson.com/william_burdine_blake.htm)

J. T. Price

Hymnal Number: d122 Author of "Tell the gladsome news" in Crowning Theme; Nos. 1 and 2 combined

C. Rowe

Hymnal Number: d106 Author of "Him that cometh this the token" in Crowning Theme; Nos. 1 and 2 combined

H. N. Lincoln

1859 - 1948 Person Name: Horace N. Lincoln Hymnal Number: d10 Author of "Beautiful city built above" in Crowning Theme; Nos. 1 and 2 combined Horace Neely Lincoln, 1859-1948. Horace was the son of James Lincoln and Emaline King, and husband of Etta Lee Thurmand (married 1887). He moved with his family to Texas when he was seven years old. At age 10, he began attending a singing school conducted by James M. Jolley of Mississippi. In 1880, he taught his first singing class in his old neighborhood school house. Later that year, he attended his first normal music school, taught at Mountain Home (now Holland), Texas. Lincoln had other musical training under L. B. Shook (a former student of Philip Bliss) and John McPherson of Illinois. In 1898, he graduated from the Chicago National College of Music, and in 1906 took a post-graduate course under Horatio Palmer. Lincoln eventually became president of the Songland Music Company, and the World’s Normal Musical College. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (hymntime/tch)

Katharyn Bacon

1884 - 1944 Person Name: Bacon Hymnal Number: d59 Author of "Of that home of the blest" in Crowning Theme; Nos. 1 and 2 combined Katharyn Bacon was born in 1884 and lived in the hills of Tennessee. She liked books, flowers, garden and being close to nature. She was most likely married to George W. Bacon since a lot of her hymns appear in hymnals he edited. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Mrs. W. J. Kennedy

1842 - 1900 Person Name: W. J. Kennedy Hymnal Number: d43 Author of "How sweet the voice of mercy" in Crowning Theme; Nos. 1 and 2 combined Full name: Mary Maria Kiernan Kennedy