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Caroline Louisa Goodenough

1856 - 1946 Person Name: Caroline L. Goodenough Hymnal Number: 7494 Author of "The Wings of a Dove" in The Cyber Hymnal Copyright records indicate Goodenough was living in Rochester, Massachusetts, in 1931. Her works include: High Lights on Hymnists and Their Hymns, 1931 --www.hymntime.com

R. N. Grisham

1877 - 1936 Hymnal Number: 3182 Author (v. 1-3) of "I Will Never Turn Back" in The Cyber Hymnal Rufus Norton Grisham

Dan Ward Milam

Person Name: Dan W. Milam Hymnal Number: 3478 Composer of "[A Savior once came from the mansions of light]" in The Cyber Hymnal

Édouard Barde

1836 - 1904 Person Name: Édouard Barde, 1834-1904 Hymnal Number: 13928 Author of "C'est Encore Temps!" in The Cyber Hymnal

Samuel Greg

1804 - 1876 Hymnal Number: 6161 Author of "Stay, Master, Stay upon This Heavenly Hill" in The Cyber Hymnal Greg, Samuel, was born in Manchester, Sept. 6, 1804, and educated by Dr. Lant Carpenter, at Bristol, and at the Edinburgh University. He subsequently became a millowner at Bollington, near Macclesfield. He died, May 14, 1877. The addresses given by him at services which he conducted for his workmen at Bollington were published posthumously as A Layman's Legacy, 1877, with a prefatory note by Dean Stanley. He was also author of Scenes from the Life of Jesus, 1854, 2nd ed. 1869. Some of his short poems were appended to his Layman's Legacy. He is known to hymnody as the author of:— 1. My soul in death was sleeping. New Life in Christ. Appeared in his Scenes from the Life of Jesus, 1854, and included in the Baptist Hymnal, 1879, No. 400. 2. Slowly, slowly darkening. Old Age. Written in the midst of affliction, Sept. 1868, and published in his Layman's Legacy, 1877, in 11 st. of 4 lines, and entitled "Mystery of Life." In 1884 it was given in W. G. Horder's Congregational Hymns, No. 837. In Martineau's Hymns, 1873, it reads, "Now, slowly, slowly, darkening." It is a hymn of great merit, and is well suited for Private Devotion. 3. Stay, Master, stay upon this heavenly hill. [Transfiguration.] 1st published in his Scenes from the Life of Jesus, 1854, at the close of a chapter on the Transfiguration. It was reprinted in Macmillan's Magazine, 1870. pp. 543-6, together with Dean Stanley's hymn, "Master, it is good to be," on the same subject. It was included in W. G. Horder's Congregational Hymns, 1884, No. "4. [Rev. W. Garrett Horder] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology

George S. Hodges

1827 - 1899 Hymnal Number: 2570 Author of "Hosanna We Sing" in The Cyber Hymnal Hodges, George Samuel, B.A., born at Walmer in 1827, educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. In 1882 he was preferred to the Vicarage of Stubbings, near Maidenhead. His principal work is The County Palatine and Other Poems Sacred and Secular, 1876. In it appeared several translations from the Latin, from English into Latin, and original pieces, including his children's hymn for Palm Sunday, "Hosanna we sing like the children dear," which is also in the 1875 edition of Hymns Ancient & Modern. A hymn for Lent, "All my sins uprising now," is in the Durham Mission Hymn Book, 1885, and others. His fine offertory hymn "Eternal! assembled with songs of thanksgiving," written to Dr. Dykes's tune "St. Leonards," was first sung at a Gregorian Festival in Lichfield Cathedral, and subsequently at Coventry, &c. It is printed in the Lichfield Festival Book, but is not included in any hymnal. He died Dec. 10, 1899. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)