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Howard B. Grose
1851 - 1939 Author of "Priceless Is Thy Treasure" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: September 5, 1851, Millerton, New York.
Died: May 19, 1939, Ballston Spa, New York.
Buried: Ballston Spa, New York.
Grose attended the University of Chicago, Illinois, and the University of Rochester, New York (AB 1876, AM 1880). He was ordained a Baptist minister in 1883, and served at the First Baptist Church, Poughkeepsie, New York (1883-87) and the First Baptist Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1888-90). He also served as president of the University of South Dakota (1890-92), taught history at the University of Chicago (1892-96), was assistant editor of The Watchman in Boston, Massachusetts (1896-1900), and editorial secretary for the American Baptist Home Mission Society (1904-10), and edited the Missions journal for 23 years. He lived his later years in Mount Vernon, New York. His works include:
The Endeavor Hymnal (New York: 1902)
Aliens or Americans, 1906
The Incoming Millions, 1906
The Praise Book, with George B. Graff (Boston, Massachusetts: United Society of Christian Endeavor, 1906)
Advance to the Antilles, 1910
Never Man So Spake, 1924
--www.hymntime.org/tch
Howard B. Grose
Robert William Dixon
1806 - 1876 Person Name: R. W. Dixon Composer of "CASTLE EDEN" in The Cyber Hymnal Dixon, Robert William. (Wapping, Middlesex, England, c.1805--December 6, 1876, Hastings, Sussex).
"To R.W. Dixon, Esq., J.P. and D.L. (Fellow of the Hist. Soc. of Gt. Br.), for a large number of must tuneful and original compositions from his private MSS."
-Preface, Burney Tune-Book. (1875). London: F. Pitman. [CASTLE EDEN is #168]
See also: Elliff name and variants in the UK for census information, which lists his occupation as follows:
Occupation 7 Apr 1861 J.P. & Commissioner of Taxes. (1861 Census Returns - RG9/3701).
--In part from DNAH Archives.
Robert William Dixon
Robert W. Dixon
1750 - 1825 Person Name: R. W. Dixon Composer of "CASTLE EDEN" in The Praise Book
Robert W. Dixon
