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George Orlia Webster

1866 - 1942 Person Name: George O. Webster Hymnal Number: d167 Author of "The victory may depend on you" in Songs of the Century No. 2
George Orlia Webster

W. McDonald

1820 - 1901 Person Name: WIlliam McDonald Hymnal Number: d54 Author of "I am trusting, Lord, in thee" in Songs of the Century No. 2 McDonald, Rev. William. (Belmont, Maine, March 1, 1820--September 11, 1901, Monrovia, California). Becoming a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1839 he was admitted to the Maine Conference in 1843, being transferred to that of Wisconsin in 1855 and of New England in 1859. For a number of years he was editor of the Advocate of Christian Holiness. In addition to being a writer of biographies and religious books, he compiled, or assisted in compiling, a number of song books of the gospel song type, among them being the Western Minstrel (1840), Wesleyan Minstrel (1853), Beulah Songs (1870), Tribute of Praise (1874). This last book was that which had been compiled by McDonald and L.F. Snow, and re-edited by Eben Tourjée, appeared in 1882 as the official hymnal of the Methodist Protestant Church. From 1870 he spent many years in evangelistic work before his retirement to Monrovia. Sources: Metcalf, Frank J., American Writers and Compilers of Sacred Music; Tillett, Wilbur F., Our Hymns and Their Authors; Nutter and Tillett, Hymns and Hymn Writers of the Church; McCutchan, Robert G., Our Hymnody; Benson, L.F., The English Hymn. --Robert G. McCutchan, DNAH Archives
W. McDonald

Charles M. Fillmore

1860 - 1952 Hymnal Number: d148 Author of "Yet there is room" in Songs of the Century No. 2 Charles Millard Fillmore, 1860-1952 Born: Ju­ly 15, 1860, Par­is, Il­li­nois. Died: Sep­tem­ber 17, 1952, In­di­an­a­po­lis, In­di­a­na. Fillmore won a mu­sic schol­ar­ship at the Cin­cin­na­ti Coll­ege of Mu­sic, then taught for a year at Bath Sem­in­a­ry in Ow­ings­ville, Ken­tucky. He then tra­veled for about a year and taught sing­ing class­es in var­i­ous parts of Amer­i­ca. He then went for ad­di­tion­al mu­sic stu­dies in Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio. He stu­died for the min­is­try at But­ler Un­i­ver­si­ty in In­di­an­a­po­lis, In­di­a­na, grad­u­at­ing in 1890. He pas­tored in La­fay­ette, In­di­a­na; Shel­by­ville, In­di­a­na; was "State Evan­gel­ist" (for one year) in Og­den, Utah; Pe­ru, In­di­a­na; Car­thage, Ohio; and Hill­side Church, In­di­an­a­po­lis, In­di­a­na. He was one of the ed­it­ors of the tem­per­ance pa­per Clean Pol­i­tics, and of The Mu­sic­al Mess­en­ger. He wrote sev­er­al hun­dred Gos­pel songs in his life­time. --www.hymntime.com/tch
Charles M. Fillmore

Samuel O'Malley Cluff

1837 - 1910 Person Name: Samuel O. Clouph Hymnal Number: d59 Author of "I'm praying for you" in Songs of the Century No. 2 Rv Samuel O'Malley Gore Cluff (Clough) United Kingdom 1837-1910. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he attended Trinity College and became a minister in the (Anglican) Church of Ireland. He pastored at various locations in Ireland. In 1884 he became leader of the Plymouth Brethren. He married Anne Blake Edge. They had four children. He wrote hymn poems and about 1000 songs. He composed many melodies and oratories. He died in Abbeyleix, Ireland. While holding crusades in Scotland with D. L. Moody, Ira Sankey came across Cluff's poem about prayer and composed the music for it, used in subsequent crusades. John Perry
Samuel O'Malley Cluff

Charles F. Butler

Person Name: C. F. Butler Hymnal Number: d136 Author of "Where Jesus is, ''tis heaven" in Songs of the Century No. 2 Butler, Charles F. (fl. 1898). Known only from his "Since Christ Jesus my soul from sin set free" (Refrain: "O Hallelujah, yes, 'tis heaven"). This was copyrighted by James M. Black in his The Chorus of Praise (New York: Eton & Main, 1898). It appeared in about 100 hymnals, 1898-1978, mostly non-denominational gospel-song collections. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives
Charles F. Butler

Ernest O. Sellers

1869 - 1952 Hymnal Number: d168 Author of "Till we get home" in Songs of the Century No. 2
Ernest O. Sellers

Mary B. Wingate

1845 - 1933 Hymnal Number: d26 Author of "Out in the desert they wander" in Songs of the Century No. 2
Mary B. Wingate

Mabel Johnston Camp

1871 - 1937 Hymnal Number: d67 Author of "In remembrance" in Songs of the Century No. 2 The Cyber Hymnal™, citing Hustad, Don­ald Paul, Dic­tion­a­ry-Hand­book to Hymns for the Liv­ing Church; Car­ol Stream, Il­li­nois: Hope Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1978, pp. 216-17, says:     Born: No­vem­ber 25, 1871, Cha­nute, Kan­sas.      Died: May 25, 1937, Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois.      A bank­er’s daugh­ter, gift­ed pi­an­ist and sing­er, Ma­bel went to a girls’ school in Steu­ben­ville, Ohio. She mar­ried law­yer Nor­man H. Camp, and they be­came Chris­tians to­ge­ther at one of Dwight Moo­dy’s Bi­ble Un­ion class­es taught by Wil­liam New­ell. She and her hus­band were mem­bers of the Moody Me­mor­i­al Church. It also lists 14 first lines of hymns she is said to have written, as well as links to hymns using three tunes she composed.
Mabel Johnston Camp

Salathiel Cleaver Kirk

1847 - 1917 Person Name: S. C. Kirk Hymnal Number: d15 Author of "Call the roll for work" in Songs of the Century No. 2 Born: Circa 1847, Near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Died: Circa 1917, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Kirk’s works include: Musings Along the Way --www.hymntime.com/tch
Salathiel Cleaver Kirk

Mrs. Geo. D. Elderkin

1850 - 1927 Person Name: George D. Elderkin Hymnal Number: d12 Author of "That sweet name" in Songs of the Century No. 2 Mary F. Willard Elderkin Born: May 5, 1850, El­mi­ra, New York. Died: Au­gust 16, 1927. Mary mar­ried George El­der­kin in 1869 in Ro­ches­ter, New York. They were liv­ing in Cook Coun­ty, Il­li­nois, in 1900 & 1910. Cyber Hymnal
Mrs. Geo. D. Elderkin

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