Person Results

Kate D. Ulmer

1874 - 1950 Person Name: Kate Ulmer Hymnal Number: 24 Author of "Far Out on the Mountain" in Saving Grace Born in Pennsylvania, lived in Dauphin County Pennsylvania with her husband Benjamin E. Ulmer.

Howard E. Smith

1863 - 1918 Hymnal Number: 13 Composer of "[Have you found the Saviour, brother?]" in Saving Grace

Flora Kirkland

1862 - 1911 Hymnal Number: 11 Author of "O, Bring Your Heart" in Saving Grace Flora Kirkland was born in 1862 in Kentucky, before moving to Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from school she became a public school teacher for the seventh grade. She was a member of Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church for which she wrote a number of hymns. She was very active in the Wallabout Bay Mission in that neighborhood of Brooklyn. Most of Wallabout Bay would be filled in to make way for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She died 17 January 1911. Brooklyn Standard Union, 16 January 1911

Salathiel Cleaver Kirk

1847 - 1917 Person Name: S. C. Kirk Hymnal Number: 54 Author of "She Hath Done What She Could" in Saving Grace Born: Circa 1847, Near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Died: Circa 1917, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Kirk’s works include: Musings Along the Way --www.hymntime.com/tch

Alice Jean Cleator

1871 - 1926 Hymnal Number: 21 Author of "Hear Him Knocking" in Saving Grace Alice Jean Cleator, 1871-1926 Born: Circa 1871, Andreas, Isle of Man, England. Died: Circa April 27, 1926, Cleveland, Ohio. Cleator’s family evidently emigrated to America in the 1870’s. She was living in Claridon, Ohio, in 1880, & Geauga County, Ohio, in 1900, 1910, & 1920. She taught school in New York City, retiring some time before 1915. --hymntime.com/tch/

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Publisher of "" in Saving Grace

R. Frank Lehman

1859 - 1931 Hymnal Number: 9 Composer of "[Christ is the best of all]" in Saving Grace R. Frank Lehman, 1859-1931 Born: June 21, 1859, Pennsylvania. Died: February 10, 1931. Buried: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lehman’s parents were Robert Jones Lehman and Louisa Weber Lehman. His works include: Uplifted Voices, with Adam Geibel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1901) World-Wide Hosannas, with Adam Geibel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1904) Hymns of the Kingdom, with Adam Geibel et al. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1905) --www.hymntime.com/tch

Lavinia E. Brauff

1851 - 1920 Hymnal Number: 3 Author of "O the Blessedness of Knowing" in Saving Grace Lavinia E. Brauff was born in Pittsburgh 12 October, 1851. She was blind from infnacy. She was educated at the School for the Blind in Philadelphia. Her first hymn was published in 1894 to the music of H. P. Danks. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)