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Earl Marlatt

1892 - 1976 Hymnal Number: 10 Author of "Behold the Fields" in Fourteen New Rural Hymns Marlatt, Earl Bowman. (Columbus, Indiana, May 24, 1892--June 13, 1976, Winchester, Ind.). One of twin boys, he was born into the family of a Methodist Episcopal minister at Columbus, Ind. Graduating from DePauw University, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1912, he continued his studies at Harvard and Boston Universities, Oxford, England, and the University of Berlin. Upon returning to America he spent one year in newspaper work at Kenosha, Wisconsin, and then joined the United States Army, serving as a second lieutenant of field artillery in World War I. He joined the staff at Boston University as Associate Professor of Philosophy in 1923, becoming Professor two years later, was Professor of Literature, Boston University School of Theology, and Dean, 1938-1945. In 1946 he became Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Member of many learned societies, a poet of distinction, he won the Golden Flower at the May Day Poetry Tournament in Boston, 1925, and has been President of both the Boston Browning Society and the Boston Authors' Club. A writer of prose as well as verse he has contributed widely to American journals. Marlatt was closely associated with and was literary advisor to H. Augustine Smith who compiled a series of hymnals during the 1920s, most of which were for young people. He was associate editor of The American Student Hymnal, 1928, one of the Smith books, and for many years a member of the Executive Committee of the Hymn Society. Sources: Who's Who in America; handbooks of various hymnals; personal acquaintance and correspondence. --Robert G. McCutchan, DNAH Archives

Georgia Elma Harkness

1891 - 1974 Person Name: Georgia Harkness Hymnal Number: 1 Author of "God of the Fertile Fields" in Fourteen New Rural Hymns

William Watkins Reid

1923 - 2007 Person Name: William W. Reid, Jr. Hymnal Number: 14 Author of "O God of Hill and Mountain" in Fourteen New Rural Hymns William W. Reid, Jr. (1923-2007), after graduating from Oberlin College and Seminary and Yale Divinity School served for more than fifty years as pastor in the Wyoming Conference in rural and inner-city Methodist churches. He served on the Executive Committee of The Hymn Society of America. He was involved in social issues, serving as a councilman and county commissioner. His hymns are widely published in hymnals of many denominations. Mary Louise VanDyke =============================== William W. Reid, Jr. is pastor of the Methodist Church Circuit at Carverton, Pennsylvania. He previously served in a similar capacity at Camptown in the same State. He is a graduate of the Yale Divinity School and Oberlin College. He served during World War II in the Medical Corps and was held prisoner by the Germans for eight months. He is the author of several hymns including those in "Fourteen New Rural Hymns" and "Twelve New World Order Hymns" published by the Hymn Society. ----Fifteen New Christian Education Hymns, 1959. Used by permission. ================================ William Watkins Reid, Jr., is currently pastor of Central United Methodist Church, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Wyoming Annual Conference and has been active on its Social Concerns, Town and Country, and Evangelism boards, and on the Pennsylvania Council of Churches. ----Twelve New Lord’s Day Hymns, 1968. Used by permission. ================================ [Reid] is an executive committee member of the Hymn Society of America, and is the author of a number of hymns that have been published in hymnals in the United States, Canada, England, and in South Africa. As a council man he is concern with the ecology of Wyoming Valley (Penn. and N.Y.) and with the rebuilding of Wilkes-Barre after the disastrous flood of 1972. --16 New Hymns on the Stewardship of the Environment [Ecology] , 1973. Used by permission.

Edward Bunnett

1834 - 1923 Person Name: Edward Bunnett, 1834-1923 Hymnal Number: 1 Composer of "KIRBY BEDON" in Fourteen New Rural Hymns Edward Bunnet Canada 1834-1923. Born at Shipdham and educated at Norwich Cathedral Choir School, he was a talented chorister, composer, a brilliant organist, and had a sharp sense of humour. He married Emma Elizabeth McGowan in 1890, and they had three children. He became assistant organist at Norwich Cathedral for 22 years and later at St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, for another 31 years. He was organist for the Norwich triennial Musical Festival for 33 years. Over his life he taught thousands of young people how to play the organ. He composed 16 choral works. John Perry

Burton C. Bastuscheck

1910 - 1995 Hymnal Number: 2 Author of "Thou Who Didst Teach Beside the Sea" in Fourteen New Rural Hymns Born in Drum, Pennsylvania; college work at Penn State and theological training at Drew Seminary. Counselor in Town and Country Church at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon; served Methodist pastorates in Pennsylvania and Iowa; previously pastor of the Central Chapel Methodist Church at Keosauqua, Iowa. --The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives

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Frank Leroy Cross

1904 - 2004 Person Name: Frank LeRoy Cross Hymnal Number: 4 Author of "To Thee Whose Rolling Fields Declare" in Fourteen New Rural Hymns Cross, Frank LeRoy. (Oklahoma, 1904- ). Evangelical United Brethren. Graduated from United Theological Seminary, Dayton. Pastor in Oklahoma, editor of Lorenz Publishing Co., Dayton. Winner of the Hymn Society of America contest for hymns based on the Bible, with "Go forth, strong word of God," issued at the time of the introduction of the Revised Standard Version. Has written other hymns for various denominations. --Ellen Jane Lorenz, DNAH Archives ========================= Frank Cross is a member of the faculty of Bonebrake Theological Seminary, an institution of the Evangelical United Brethren Church. He is a graduate of Oklahoma City University and had theological training at Bonebrake Seminary. He was the pastor of the First United Brethren Church in Oklahoma City from 1934 to 1946. He has written a number of hymns for the services of his own congregation, and some of these have been used elsewhere. This Bible hymn is the first to be published. --Ten New Hymns on the Bible, 1952. Used by permission.

James Lewis Milligan

1876 - 1961 Person Name: J. Lewis Milligan Hymnal Number: 11 Author of "Hymn to the Pioneers" in Fourteen New Rural Hymns Milligan, James Lewis. (Liverpool, England, February 1, 1876--May 1, 1961, Scarborough Township, York County, Ontario). Son of Anglican parents, his early and only formal education was obtained at Anglican schools. Going to work in the building trades at the age of twelve, he applied himself so assiduously to self-study he soon began contributing to London papers. In 1910 a collection of his verse was published by a London hour resulting in his receiving the Hemans Prize for Lyrical Poetry. The next year, with his family, he emigrated to Canada and became a pastor on the Methodist circuit in Hastings County, Ontario. He was, variously, an editor, editorial writer, publicity director, and author. Among his published works are The Beckoning Skyline (verse), 1920; Judas Iscariot (a play), 1930. A more detailed account of his life can be found in Our Hymnody, p.483. Sources: McMillan, Alexander. Hymns of the Church; correspondence. --Robert G. McCutchan, DNAH Archives ========================= Milligan, James Lewis. (Liverpool, England, February 1, 1876--May 1, 1961, Toronto, Ont.). Methodist/United Church. After emigrating to Ontario in 1911, and spending two years at Actinolite as a Methodist lay-preacher, this active layman was never far from some form of journalism, having already written articles for London newspapers. He briefly edited the Peterborough Review (1913-1914) and the Stratford Beacon-Herald (1934-1937), besides writing editorials for the Toronto Globe and feature articles for the newspaper it later joined, The Mail and Empire. From 1926-1934 he handled public relations for Ontario's department of mines, as in 1922-1925 he had done for the three denominations (Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational) which were planning to amalgamate into The United Church of Canada, despite signs that not all their members welcomed such a step. His sole hymn, a paraphrase of Isaiah 40, expressed the stated goals of the new denomination well enough to figure in its Hymnary (1930). --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives

Ernest K. Emurian

1912 - 2004 Hymnal Number: 6 Author of "When Dawns the Morning Sunlight" in Fourteen New Rural Hymns Born: February 20, 1912, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Died: January 23, 2004, Alexandria, Virginia. Buried: Columbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia. Son of an Armenian immigrant pastor, Emurian attended Davidson College, North Carolina (BA); Union Theological Seminary, Virginia (BD); and Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey (ThM). Randolph-Macon College of Virginia also conferred an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree on him in 1971. Emurian served as pastor of the Cherrydale United Methodist Church, Arlington, Virginia, for 19 years, until retiring in 1981. He wrote some 19 books and 60 hymns, as well as hymn tunes, anthems, and popular songs. His works include: Hymn Festivals Hymn Stories for Programs The Living Dramatization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s the Last Supper Sweetheart of the Civil War Living Stories of Famous Hymns (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1955) Famous Stories of Inspiring Hymns (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1956) Stories of Christmas Carols, revised and enlarged edition (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1958) Forty Stories of Famous Gospel Songs (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1959) --www.hymntime.com/tch/ =========================== Ernest K. Emurian is pastor of the Elm Avenue Methodist Church, Portsmouth, Virginia. He has served several pastorates in the Methodist Church, chiefly in Virginia. He has long been interested in hymns, and has written several of them, including "When Dawns the Morning Sunlight" in the "Fourteen New Rural Hymns" published by the Society in 1955. He is the author of two volumes entitled "Dramatized Stories of Hymns and Hymn Writers". He had his college work at Davidson College, graduating in 1931. --Twelve New World Order Hymns, 1958. Used by permission. =========================== Ernest K. Emurian, a fourth-generation minister, is a graduate of Davidson College, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, and Princeton Seminary. He has been a Methodist minister since 1936 and is currently pastor of Cherrydale Methodist Church, Arlington, Virginia. He is the author of seventeen books in the fields of hymnody and drama, and of more than thirty hymns. A member of ASCAP, he is the composer of hymn tunes, and sacred and secular songs. His hymn "We Dedicate This Temple" is in The Armed Forces Hymnal and The Presbyterian Hymnal. He lectures widely on Practical Hymnology and Religious Drama, and as an after-dinner speaker addresses conventions and conferences in many states. ----Twelve New Lord’s Day Hymns, 1968. Used by permission.

John Edgar Park

1879 - 1956 Person Name: J. Edgar Park Hymnal Number: 12 Author of "The Peace of Heaven Is on Our Fields" in Fourteen New Rural Hymns J. Edgar Park, until his retirement in 1944, was President of Wheaton College, Massachusetts. He was born in Belfast, Ireland, March 7, 1879 and had his theological studies at New College, Edinburgh, The Royal University, Dublin, and Princeton Theological Seminary. His principal pastorate was in the Second Church of Newton, Congregational, West Newton, Massachusetts, which he served 1926 to 1944, going from there to the Presidency of Wheaton. He is the author of many books, including one of the Lyman Beecher Lectures at Yale. He wrote one of the "Eleven Ecumenical Hymns," entitled "O Christ whose love has sought us out," which were obtained by the Hymn Society for use at the Evanston Assembly (1954) of the World Council of Churches. --Fourteen New Rural Hymns. Used by permission.