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Baxter L. Carlton

Hymnal Number: d112 Author of "Thus, they die" in Hymns of Progress

Lilly

Hymnal Number: d119 Author of "We have yielded up our darling" in Hymns of Progress

1817 - 1904 Person Name: H. H. Hawley Hymnal Number: d172 Author of "There is a hope, a blessed hope" in Hymns of Progress Hawley, H. H., author of "There is a hope, a blessed hope" [Hope in Christ], which appeared in A. C. Thomas's Hymns of Zion, 1839, was born in Lewis County, New York, April 10, 1817. In 1881 he published The Iris; Songs of Jesus for Sunday Schools and Devotional Meetings, to which he contributed seven hymns. The music of this collection is mainly by Mr. Hawley. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ============================ Hawley, Horace H. (Lewis County, New York, April 10, 1817--?). Baptist. Associated with Bennett, Backus, and Hawley and other bookselling firms in Utica, N.Y. Became secretary of the Aetna Insurance Company in Utica in 1852. Moved to Hartford, Connecticut, shortly thereafter and to Burlington, Iowa, in 1856. Operated a music and book store as well as an insurance agency there. He is listed in the Burlington city directory as late as 1872. In Burrage's Baptist Hymn Writers and Their Hymns, it is noted that his health became impaired that year and he moved to southwestern Wisconsin. In 1886, he was living in Chicago, Illinois. --Paul Hammond, DNAH Archives ============================ Date of death: Perhaps 1904. Find A Grave.

G. W. Langford

Person Name: George W. Hangford Hymnal Number: d158 Author of "Speak gently, it is better far" in Hymns of Progress

William Huntly

Hymnal Number: d220 Author of "Sunshine of the heart" in Hymns of Progress

Emily Bugbee Johnson

Person Name: Emily B. Johnson Hymnal Number: d98 Author of "In the silence of the midnight" in Hymns of Progress

Park Benjamin

1809 - 1864 Hymnal Number: d199 Author of "'Tis eve, one brightly beaming star" in Hymns of Progress Park Benjamin. American journalist and poet. Park Benjamin was born in 1809 in British Guiana. His father was an import merchant who made frequent trips between British Guiana and New Haven, Connecticut. Park Benjamin was sent to Connecticut in his early years and graduated from Trinity College. He practiced law in Boston but preferred editorial work there, and later in New York. In 1840 helped to found The New World, and after other brief editorial ventures became a lecturer, public reader, and periodical writer, prominent in New York literary circles. He is know known mainly through his shorter poems. The new international encyclopaedia, New York: Dood, Mead, 1905 and Find A Grave website accessed 8/9/2020