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Horace Clarence Boyer

1935 - 2009 Person Name: Horace Clarence Boyer (b. 1935) Arranger of "[We are climbing Jacob’s ladder]" in Lift Every Voice and Sing II Horace Boyer (b. Winter Park, Flordia, July 28, 1935; d. Amherst, Massachusetts, July 21, 2009) was professor of music at the University of Massachussetts, Amhurst, editor of the African American hymnal Lift Every Voice and Sing, Lift Every Voice and Sing II, and author of How Sweet the Sound: The Golden Age of Gospel (Elliot & Clark, 1995). Sing! A New Creation

Melvin West

1930 - 2019 Person Name: Melvin West (1930-2019) Arranger of "JACOB'S LADDER (Spiritual)" in Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal

Norman E. Johnson

1928 - 1983 Person Name: Norman Johnson Arranger of "JACOB'S LADDER" in Praise! Our Songs and Hymns

Anonymous

Person Name: Anon. Author of "We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

William Farley Smith

1941 - 1997 Adapter and Arranger of "JACOB'S LADDER" in The United Methodist Hymnal

Charlie D. Tillman

1861 - 1943 Arranger of "[We are climbing Jacob’s ladder, ladder]" in Soul Inspiring Songs Tillman, Charles "Charlie" Davis. (Tallahassee, Talapoosa County, Alabama, March 20, 1861--1943). Married Anna Killingsworth (Dec. 24, 1889); four daughters, one son (d.1910). --Keith C. Clark, DNAH Archives

R. Nathaniel Dett

1882 - 1943 Arranger of "JACOB'S LADDER" in A Hymnal for Friends

Roger C. Wilson

1912 - 1988 Composer of "[We are climbing Jacob's ladder]" in Men's Gospel Quartets new and old Roger Cole Wilson was long-associated with Ellen J. Lorenz Publishing, as was his father. Born in Dayton, he studied at the U. of Southern California at Los Angeles. He returned to Dayton, where he was born and raised, to join Lorenz Publishing. Wilson wrote cantatas, operettas, sacred and secular choral music, and especially for organ. He was editor of The Organist from 1940-1950. He also served as editor for The Volunteer Choir. John Richard Hendricks, from obituary and Lorenz Publishing notes (accessed 7/2019) (sent by email to Hymnary)