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Alfred Barratt

1879 - 1968 Person Name: Dr. Alfred Barratt Hymnal Number: 13 Author of "In That Beautiful Eden of Prayer" in Songs of Spring Barratt, Alfred. (New Springs, Wigan, Lancashire, England, October 25, 1879--December, 1968). Coming to the United States as a young man, he studied at Gordon College, Massachusetts, and Newton Theological Seminary, Mass. He was ordained in December, 1913, by the Baptists in Connecticut, then by the Wheeling WV Presbytery, Presbyterian Church in the USA, in 1924. He was pastor of Dallas, West Virginia, then of a series of churches in the Presbytery of Clarion, Pennsylvania. In 1937 he was awarded the Doctor of Literature degree by Bob Jones College. On November 26, 1962, he wrote the undersigned: "For 39 long years I have labored hard and steady writing sermons, children's story sermons, and hymns. Up to the present day I have written 4,477 hymns. 80 percent of my sermons are published in books and magazines." --William J. Reynolds, DNAH Archives

Mosie Lister

1921 - 2015 Person Name: M. L. Hymnal Number: 14 Author of "I'm Glad the Savior Came" in Songs of Spring

J. R. Baxter

1887 - 1960 Person Name: J. R. Baxter, Jr. Hymnal Number: 39 Author of "Praise His Name" in Songs of Spring Jesse Randall (Pap) Baxter, Jr. (1887-1960) Born: December 8, 1887, Lebanon, Alabama. Died: January 21, 1960. Baxter grew up in DeKalb County, Alabama. In 1926, he bought part of Virgil Stamps’ Gospel music firm, which became the Stamps-Baxter Music and Printing Company, one of the most successful Gospel music publishers of the early 20th Century. Baxter ran the company’s Chattanooga, Tennessee, office until Stamps’ death in 1940, then moved to Dallas, Texas, to run the main office. After Baxter’s death, his wife, Clarice, ran the business until she died; it was then sold to Zondervan. Baxter was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame in 1997. Lyrics-- After the Sunrise Farther Along God Shall Wipe Away All Tears (© 1940) He Bore It All I Have Peace in My Soul I Hold His Hand (© 1929) I Love My Savior, Too I Want to Help Some Weary Pilgrim I’m Living in Canaan Now Living Grace Praise the Lamb of God Something Happens Travel the Sunlit Way Try Jesus When He Blessed My Soul When We Meet to Part No More © Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Stamps Baxter Music and Printing Co.

Person Name: Stamps Baxter Music & Printing Co. Publisher of "" in Songs of Spring

J. M. Henson

1887 - 1972 Person Name: J. M. H. Hymnal Number: 23 Author of "Stay By the Cross" in Songs of Spring

Cleavant Derricks

1910 - 1977 Person Name: C. D. Hymnal Number: 5 Author of "There's Be Light in the Valley for Me" in Songs of Spring

W. Oliver Cooper

1885 - 1963 Hymnal Number: 61 Author of "Looking for a City" in Songs of Spring Use pseudonym Oscar J. Schwab

Marvin P. Dalton

1906 - 1987 Hymnal Number: 61 Composer of "[Here among the shadows in a lonely land]" in Songs of Spring Marvin Price Dalton born in Arkansas, died in Oklahoma Dianne Shapiro, from Find a Grave website (accessed 6/20/2022)

Marion W. Easterling

1910 - 1989 Hymnal Number: 75 Composer of "[If you are burdened, weary and oppressed]" in Songs of Spring Born: March 12, 1910, Clanton, Alabama. Died: December 10, 1989, Birmingham, Alabama. Buried: Martin Memorial Cemetery, Clanton, Alabama. Marion W. Easterling, composed over 300 southern gospel songs. He received his music education in various singing schools, being taught by Ocie Lee DeVaughan, Dad Speer and others. In 1938, he was the youngest composer to sign a five year contract with the Stamps-Baxter Publishing Company. He has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for his long career as the programmer for the WKLF Radio stations's gospel program "America's Favorites". The program began in December 1947 and continued for 39 years, during which time, he broadcast over 20,000 shows. --www.findagrave.com/