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Lizzie De Armond

1847 - 1936 Person Name: Lizzie DeArmond Hymnal Number: d35 Author of "Sleep on, sleep on" in Excellent Songs Lizzie De Armond was a prolific writer of children's hymns, recitations and exercises. When she was twelve years old her first poem was published in the Germantown, Pa. Telegraph, however, it was not until she was a widow with eight children to support that she started writing in earnest. She wrote articles, librettos, nature stories and other works, as well as hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Hymnal Number: d2 Author of "Crossing the river, bound for the heavenly shore" in Excellent Songs Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Johnson Oatman, Jr.

1856 - 1922 Person Name: Johnson Oatman Hymnal Number: d5 Author of "Lie still and slumber now" in Excellent Songs Johnson Oatman, Jr., son of Johnson and Rachel Ann Oatman, was born near Medford, N. J., April 21, 1856. His father was an excellent singer, and it always delighted the son to sit by his side and hear him sing the songs of the church. Outside of the usual time spent in the public schools, Mr. Oatman received his education at Herbert's Academy, Princetown, N. J., and the New Jersey Collegiate Institute, Bordentown, N. J. At the age of nineteen he joined the M.E. Church, and a few years later he was granted a license to preach the Gospel, and still later he was regularly ordained by Bishop Merrill. However, Mr. Oatman only serves as a local preacher. For many years he was engaged with his father in the mercantile business at Lumberton, N. J., under the firm name of Johnson Oatman & Son. Since the death of his father, he has for the past fifteen years been in the life insurance business, having charge of the business of one of the great companies in Mt. Holly, N. J., where he resides. He has written over three thousand hymns, and no gospel song book is considered as being complete unless it contains some of his hymns. In 1878 he married Wilhelmina Reid, of Lumberton, N.J. and had three children, Rachel, Miriam, and Percy. Excerpted from Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers by Jacob Henry Hall; Fleming H. Revell, Co. 1914

Sanford Fillmore Bennett

1836 - 1898 Person Name: Sanford F. Bennett Hymnal Number: d26 Author of "Eternity" in Excellent Songs Sanford Fillmore Bennett was born in Eden, New York, 21 June 1836. He and his parents moved to Plainfield, Illinois when he was two years old. He worked on the farm and attended district school during the winter. He was a voracious reader. At sixteen he entered Waukegon Academy. Two years later he began teaching at Wauconda. In 1858 he entered the University of Michigan, Afterward he had charge of the schools in Richmond, Illinois. Two years later he resigned and became Associate Editor of the Independent at Elkhorn, Wisconsin. In 1864 he enlisted in the Wisconsin Volunteers and served as Second Lieutenant. After the war he returned to Elkhorn and opened a drug store and began the study of medicine. He graduated from Rush Medical College in 1874. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Birdie Bell

Person Name: R. F. R. Bell Hymnal Number: d1 Author of "Christ is calling thee" in Excellent Songs C. Louise Bell, also known a Birdie Bell, was born, raised and lived in New York city. She began writing hymns when she was sixteen years old. She is the author of more than 500 hymns, 200 religious poems, and 200 Christmas and Easter lyrics, as well as short stories, and articles. She wrote under the name of Birdie Bell, which is what her family called her. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Mabel J. Rosemon

b. 1880 Hymnal Number: d13 Author of "Christ leads the way, he will ever guide" in Excellent Songs Mabel J. Rosemon, 1880-? Born: December 3, 1880, Manhattan, New York. Rosemon seems to have been living in Mercer County, New Jersey, in 1900. Her works include: Christmas Suggestion Book No. 2 (editor), 1928 --www.nethymnal.com

H. M. Eagle

Publisher of "" in Excellent Songs 20th Century For a while, Eagle was a singing teacher at Anthony Showalter’s Southern Normal Institute. As of 1914, he was living in Burke’s Garden, Virginia. In 1918, he was a member of the Big Quartet, which performed & promoted songs for Showalter’s music publishing company. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

C. H. Bottoms

1878 - 1940 Person Name: Claude H. Bottoms Hymnal Number: d26 Author of "Eternity" in Excellent Songs Claud Henry Bottoms was born on April 13, 1878 in Fayette County, Georgia. He was educated in the public schools and began studying music under J. M. York and later under J. Henry Showalter. After attending two sessions of the Southern Normal Musical Institute (SNMI), he received his diploma at the special session held in Dalton, Georgia, in 1902. He began teaching in 1901, the year his first music was published in Our Thankful Songs. He died on February 2, 1940 in Atlanta, Georgia. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)