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Kate Harrington

Hymnal Number: d148 Author of "The temperance compact" in The Anniversary and Sunday School Music Book No. 1-5 Pseudonymn. See Pollard, Rebecca S.(Rebecca Smith), 1831-1917

Hymnal Number: d28 Author of "Let us be happy, and let us be gay" in The Anniversary and Sunday School Music Book No. 1-5 Williams, I. P. This name is given in W. B. Bradbury's Oriola, 1860, No. 288, as the author of "Another year has passed away" (Old Year). In the Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879, the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905, and others. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

T. H. Stockton

1808 - 1868 Person Name: Thomas H. Stockton Hymnal Number: d159 Author of "Stand up for Jesus" in The Anniversary and Sunday School Music Book No. 1-5 Stockton, Thomas Hewlings, D.D. (Mount Holly, New Jersey, June 4, 1808--October 9, 1868, Philadelphia). The son of William S., founder and editor of The Wesleyan Repository, 1821, and Elizabeth S. (Hewlings) Stockton. Largely educated in private schools, after studying medicine for a time and spending some five years following literary pursuits, he was admitted to the Maryland Annual Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church. A voluminous writer, he became one of the most eloquent preachers of the nineteenth century in America. When but twenty-five years of age he was elected chaplain of the House of Representatives, Congress of the United States, serving in that capacity the sessions of 1835-1836, 1859-1860, 1861-1862, and in 1862 was chosen chaplain of the United States Senate. It was he who offered the memorable prayer at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Monument. Although much in the public eye as an eminent preacher, lecturer, and leader in all forms of social progress, he insisted his name be used with neither prefix nor suffix. He did not acknowledge the degree of Doctor of Divinity conferred on him by Gettysburg College and refused to accept the presidency of Miami College, Oxford, Ohio, when unanimously elected to that position by its board of trustees. Because of his opposition to denominationalism he twice resigned his assigned pastorates and organized, in Philadelphia and Cincinnati, "Societies of Brotherly Love," designed to follow the pattern set by John Wesley for his early converts. Dr. Stockton compiled the Methodist Protestant Hymn-Book of 1837, the first Methodist hymnal to accredit the hymns to their respective authors. In addition to numerous sermons and speeches, his published works include: Floating Flowers from a Hidden Brook, 1844 Ecclesiastical Opposition to the Bible, 1853 Stand Up, A Christian Ballad, 1858 Poems, 1862 "Stand up for Jesus," from A Christian Ballad which included autobiographical notes and some other poems, was suggested by the same incident which gave rise to the George Duffield, Jr., hymn with the same opening line. Although set to music several times it gave way to the latter. --Robert G. McCutchan, DNAH Archives

C. B. Lamson

Hymnal Number: d56 Author of "Here we throng to praise the Lord" in The Anniversary and Sunday School Music Book No. 1-5

H. B. Gower

Hymnal Number: d78 Author of "The happy change" in The Anniversary and Sunday School Music Book No. 1-5

S. C. Dyer

Hymnal Number: d136 Author of "Once more with hallowed feeling" in The Anniversary and Sunday School Music Book No. 1-5

G. W. Langford

Person Name: George W. Hangford Hymnal Number: d158 Author of "Speak gently, it is better far" in The Anniversary and Sunday School Music Book No. 1-5

H. M. Lischer

Hymnal Number: d36 Author of "Dear Father, e're we part, Now [O] let thy grace" in The Anniversary and Sunday School Music Book No. 1-5

Elbert S. Porter

1820 - 1888 Hymnal Number: d191 Author of "We love to sing together" in The Anniversary and Sunday School Music Book No. 1-5 Porter, Elbert Stothoff, D.D. (October 23, 1820--February 26, 1888). Reformed Church of America. Editor Christian Intelligencer for 14 years. The Church Hymnary, 1891, gives his birth date as 1819. --Robert G. McCutchan, DNAH Archives