b. 1847 Person Name: John Jackson Hood Composer of "[In the midnight silent watches]" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: 1847, Scotland.
Died: After 1929 (he was in the 1930 census).
Hood ran a Gospel music publishing business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from as early as 1875 to at least 1913.
--www.hymntime.com/tch
John J. Hood