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Madge Harrington

Hymnal Number: 160 Author of "Marching Up the Narrow Way" in The Master's Call Early 20th Century

1806 - 1874 Person Name: Mrs. M. A. W. Cook Hymnal Number: 61 Author of "The Lord Will Provide" in The Master's Call Martha Elizabeth Duncan Walker Cook USA 1806-1874. Born in Northcumberland County, PA, she married Rev. Parsons Cook, editor of a Boston paper called “The Puritan Recorder”. She contributed to, and for a time, was editor of the “Continental Monthly”. She translated “The life of Chopin”, by Franz Liszt, from the French in 1863. She also translated “Undivine comedy” by Zygmund Krasinski in 1875. She died in Hoboken, NJ. John Perry

E. C. Avis

1859 - 1933 Hymnal Number: 16 Composer of "[I will sing of the mercies of the Lord]" in The Master's Call

Powell G. Fithian

b. 1861 Hymnal Number: 38 Composer of "[I'll do what I can for Jesus]" in The Master's Call Born: April 30, 1861, Greenwich Township (now Gibbstown), New Jersey. Fithian was music director for the public schools in Camden, New Jersey. He and his wife Julia were both listed in the 1910 and 1920 census, but his wife appears alone in the 1930 census. Powell’s works include: Songs of the Mercy Seat, with George Hugg (Methodist Episcopal Book Room, 1899) Songs for Work and Worship, with Howard Entwisle & Adam Geibel (Dayton, Ohio: Lorenz & Company, 1900) Exalted Praise, with Howard Entwisle (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: MacCalla & Company, 1901) Heavenly Sunlight, with Howard Entwisle & Adam Geibel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: MacCalla & Company, 1902) The Fithian Music Primer (New York: American Book Company, 1915) --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Addie J. Bacon

Hymnal Number: 51 Author of "Why Do I Love Jesus?" in The Master's Call

Henry Carey

1687 - 1743 Hymnal Number: 184 Composer of "[My country, 'tis of thee]" in The Master's Call Henry Carey, b. 1685 (?); d. London, 1743 Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

J. M. Blose

Person Name: J. M. B. Hymnal Number: 127 Author of "Jesus, King Most Wonderful" in The Master's Call James Miles Blose, from Waynesville, Penn. studied music at Oberlin College in the early 1880's. He edited The Songland Choir in 1900. Dianne Shapiro

H. W. Porter

Hymnal Number: 174 Composer of "[He fell, the Prince of glory fell]" in The Master's Call

Simeon Butler Marsh

1798 - 1875 Person Name: S. D. Marsh Hymnal Number: 182 Composer of "[Jesus, Lover of my soul]" in The Master's Call Simeon Butler Marsh USA 1798-1875. Born at Sherburne, NY, he was raised on a farm. A Presbyterian, he became a gifted organist and teacher. He sang in a choir at age seven and studied music at age 16. By age 19 he was teaching in the local singing schools in Geneva, NY, and had met hymnist, Thomas Hastings from Geneva, NY, who gave him much encouragement. He married Eliza Carrier, and they had a son, John, and a daughter, Jane. In 1837 he became publisher of the Amsterdam, NY, paper “Intelligencer” (later called ‘Recorder’), and ran it for seven years, even setting his own type. He moved back to Sherburne and founded the Sherburne News. He taught music to choirs and children for almost 30 years in and around the Albany Presbytery, and also served as a Sunday school superintendent for six years and a choir leader for three years. He set type for three juvenile books as well. For thirteen years he gave free music instruction to students in the Schenectedy area. In 1859 he returned to Sherburne and gave music instruction to large classes of men, women, and children. He wrote two cantatas: “The Savior” and “The king of the forest”. He wrote a number of hymns, but most have not survived over time. His wife died in 1873. He died at Albany, NY, and is buried in Schenectady, NY. John Perry

Julia H. Johnston

1849 - 1919 Hymnal Number: 94 Author of "Let Not Your Hearts Be Troubled" in The Master's Call Julia Harriet Johnston, who was born on Jan. 21, 1849, at Salineville, OH, in Columbiana County. Her father was a minister and he mother was a poet. She began writing when she was nine years old but really started writing verse in high school. She lived in Peoria, Ill. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)