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William F. Sherwin

1826 - 1888 Composer of "EVENING PRAISE" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) Sherwin, William Fisk, an American Baptist, was born at Buckland, Massachusetts, March 14,1826. His educational opportunities, so far as schools were concerned, were few, but he made excellent use of his time and surroundings. At fifteen he went to Boston and studied music under Dr. Mason: In due course he became a teacher of vocal music, and held several important appointments in Massachusetts; in Hudson and Albany, New York County, and then in New York City. Taking special interest in Sunday Schools, he composed carols and hymn-tunes largely for their use, and was associated with the Rev. R. Lowry and others in preparing Bright Jewels, and other popular Sunday School hymn and tune books. A few of his melodies are known in Great Britain through I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, where they are given with his signature. His hymnwriting was limited. The following pieces are in common use:— 1. Grander than ocean's story (1871). The Love of God. 2. Hark, bark, the merry Christmas bells. Christmas Carol. 3. Lo, the day of God is breaking. The Spiritual Warfare. 4. Wake the song of joy and gladness. Sunday School or Temperance Anniversary. 5. Why is thy faith, 0 Child of God, so small. Safety in Jesus. Mr. Sherwin died at Boston, Massachusetts, April 14, 1888. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================== Sherwin, W. F., p. 1055, i. Another hymn from his Bright Jewels, 1869, p. 68, is "Sound the battle cry" (Christian Courage), in the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905, and several other collections. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Mary A. Lathbury

1841 - 1913 Person Name: Mary Artemesia Lathbury Author of "Day Is Dying in the West" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) Lathbury, Mary Ann, was born in Manchester, Ontario County, New York, Aug. 10, 1841. Miss Lathbury writes somewhat extensively for the American religious periodical press, and is well and favourably known (see the Century Magazine, Jan., 1885, p. 342). Of her hymns which have come into common use we have:— 1. Break Thou the bread of life. Communion with God. A "Study Song" for the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, written in the summer of 1880. It is in Horder's (Eng.) Congregational Hymns, 1884. 2. Day is dying in the west. Evening. "Written at the request of the Rev. John H. Vincent, D.D., in the summer of 1880. It was a "Vesper Song," and has been frequently used in the responsive services of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle." It is in the Laudes Domini, N. Y., 1884. For these details we are indebted to S. W. Duffield's English Hymns, &c, N. Y., 1886. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================== Lathbury, Mary A., p. 640, i. Another hymn by this writer is, "Lift up, lift up thy voice with singing." [Praise to Christ), in Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Ira B. Wilson

1880 - 1950 Person Name: I. B. W. Arranger of "[Day is dying in the west]" in Men's Gospel Quartets Ira Bishop Wilson, 1880-1950 Born: September 6, 1880, Bedford, Iowa. Died: April 3, 1950, Los Angeles, California. Buried: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California. Pseudonym: Fred B. Holton. Wilson’s sister taught him to play the violin and organ while still at home. Around 1902, Ira began studies at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois. In 1905, he went to work for the Lorenz Publishing Company in Dayton, Ohio. His compositions appeared in The Choir Leader and The Choir Herald; he also served as editor in chief of The Volunteer Choir. His works include: The King’s Message, with Edmund Lorenz (New York: Lorenz Publishing Company, 1910) The Beginners’ Choir, with Edmund Lorenz (Dayton, Ohio: Lorenz Publishing Company, 1911) Praise Ye, a Collection of Sacred Songs, with Edmund Lorenz (New York: Lorenz Publishing Company, 1913) His Worthy Praise, with Edmund Lorenz (Dayton, Ohio: Lorenz Publishing Company, 1915) Sources-- Hall, pp. 413-5 Lyrics-- Go Forward to Conquer Look Above Make Me a Blessing © 1924 My Savior’s Voice This Wonderful Christ Is Mine Trustingly Follow Music-- Across the Templed Hills Angels’ Chorus, The Christ Is Born Christ the Lord Is Born Christmas Lullaby Conchita Exalt the King Give Praise God Is Goodness, God Is Love God Is So Good He Arose Today His Love Is Always True Jesus Wants Us to Help Joy to the World Loving Jesus Christ Marching Forward May God Depend on You? Night of Nights O Star of Matchless Splendor On Calvary’s Cross One Day Out in the Highways and Byways of Life Rejoice! Rejoice! Ring, Sweet Bells Song of the Morning, The Stars of December Walking with Jesus Was There Ever a Friend So True? We Come Today What Do the Flowers Say? Who Will Our Pilot Be? Win One --hymntime.com/tch

Alton H. Howard

1925 - 2006 Person Name: Alton Howard Arranger of "CHAUTAQUA" in Songs of Faith and Praise

H. Parry Jones

Person Name: H. P. J. Translator of "Darfod weithian y mae'r dydd (Day is dying in the west)" in Mawl a chân = praise and song

Waldo S. Pratt

1857 - 1939 Person Name: W. S. P. Composer of "[Day is dying in the west]" in Songs of Worship Pratt, Waldo Selden. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 10, 1857--July 29, 1939, Hartford, Connecticut). Williams College, A.B. 1878, graduate study at Johns Hopkins University in classical archaeology and esthetics. He was largely self-taught in music. He was assistant director of the New York Metropolitan Museum, 1880-1882, and then joined the faculty of the Hartford Theological Seminary where he spent the rest of his life, teaching hymnology, music, public worship and allied subjects. Over the years he lectured at Trinity College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the Institute of Musical Art, New York. He was president of the Music Teachers National Association, 1906-1908, editor of its Proceedings, 1906-1915. He was awarded the honorary Mus.Doc. degree by Syracuse University in 1898, and the L.H.D. degree by Williams College in 1929. A distinguished lexicographer, he contributed to several encyclopedias, edited the American Supplement to Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1935, and compiled his own New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians, 1924. Among other books, he wrote an outstanding History of Music, 1907, 1927 & 1935. As music historian he wrote many article in music and church journals. In the field of hymnology, he published The Music of the Pilgrims, 1921 (a study of Ainsworth's Psalter), "The importance of the French Psalter of 1562" in The Musical Quarterly, January 1935, and an edition of the French Psalter in 1939. Pratt was responsible for gathering the large Warrington-Pratt-Soule Collection of hymnals at Hartford Seminary--since 1976 in the Pitts Library, Candler Theological Seminary, Emory University, Atlanta. There is a fine tribute to him by Otto Kinkeldey in The Musical Quarterly, April, 1940. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives