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W. P. Rivers

Hymnal Number: d152 Author of "Story of the cross" in Gems of Sacred Song

1874 - 1943 Person Name: C. Benjamin Hopkins Hymnal Number: d146 Author of "I give myself to thee just now" in Gems of Sacred Song Born: April 9, 1874, Illinois. Died: October 18, 1943, Chicago, Illinois. Hopkins married Laura Edna Whipple 1901, and they lived in Chicago their entire married life. His works include: Wayside Flowers, 1900 © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Adam Craig

Hymnal Number: d117 Author of "Man the lifeboat my brother" in Gems of Sacred Song Late 19th Century

Robert A. West

1808 - 1865 Person Name: Robert A. West, 1809-1865 Hymnal Number: d26 Author of "Come, let us tune our loftiest song, And raise to Christ" in Gems of Sacred Song West, Robert Athow, an editor and author, was born in England in 1802. In 1843 he went to America, and was the official reporter of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1844. He was also one of the committee appointed by that Conference to prepare a Standard edition of the Methodist Hymn Book. That collection appeared as Hymns for the Use of The Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1849. To it West contributed two hymns—(1) "Come, let us tune our loftiest song" (Praise of Jesus), and (2) "Now, Lord, fulfil Thy faithful word" (On behalf of Ministers). (Nutter's Hymn Studies, 1884, p. 32.) -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ============================== West, Robert Athow. (1809 [sic]--February 1, 1865). The commonly accepted date of West's birth is 1809, not 1802 as given in Julian. He was a Methodist Episcopal layman, editor of the Columbia Magazine, New York, 1846-1849, and for a time, beginning 1858, of the New York Commercial Advertiser. The last years of his life were spent in Washington, D.C., where he was connected with the office of the Judge-Advocate General. He died at his home in Georgetown, D.C. He published Sketches of Wesleyan Preachers (1848) and A Father's Letters to His Daughter (1865). --Robert G. McCutchan, DNAH Archives ============================== See also in: Hymn Writers of the Church

E. M. Herndon

Hymnal Number: d94 Author of "Prepare our hearts" in Gems of Sacred Song

W. J. Herbert Hogan

Hymnal Number: d64 Author of "Enter the service of Jesus" in Gems of Sacred Song Early 20th Century Currently, our only data on Hogan is that he was a minister. --www.hymntime.com/tch

Lou Singletary Bedford

1837 - 1945 Person Name: Lou S. Bedford Hymnal Number: d192 Author of "The lost soul's lament" in Gems of Sacred Song Mrs. Lou Singletary Bedford, author, born in Feliciana, Graves county, Kentucky, 7th April 1837. Her father was a teacher, and his little daughter placed n his school at six years of age. she had no special love for books, except for reading, spelling and grammar, but her ambition kept her at the head of most of her classes. she completed her course of study in Clinton Seminary. After leaving school she taught for a year or two. In 1857 she became the wife of John Joseph Bedford, a friend and associate of her childhood. There were six children born to them. Mrs. Bedford's literary career has in great measure become identified with Texas, her adopted home. From her sixteenth year she continued to write until her marriage, after which her pen was silent for nearly fifteen years. She has published two volumes of poetry."A Vision, and Other Poems" (Cincinnati and London, 1881) and "Gathered Leaves" (Dallas, 1889). Mrs. Bedford has for years contributed to various periodicals. She resided in El Paso, Texas where she was social and literary editor of the El Paso "Sunday Morning Tribune." From American Women: fifteen hundred biographies, with over 1,400 photos: a comprehensive encyclopedia of the lives and achievements of American women during the nineteenth century (Rev. ed.) by Frances E. Willard an Mary A Livermore (New York/Chicago/Springfield, OH: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1897