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Clara McAlister Brooks

1882 - 1980 Person Name: Clara McAlister Meter: 10.7.10.7 D Author of "Holiness unto the Lord" in Timeless Truths Birth: Oct. 9, 1882, Parke County, Indiana, USA Death: Mar. 20, 1980, Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida, USA Clara McAlister Brooks was one of our early songwriters and four of her pieces are in the current hymnal. From the earliest days of the movement we have had women prominent in all forms of our ministry—missionaries, evangelists, teachers, pastors, and God has honored their sacrificial labors. For that reason we can stand in amazement when here, in the 1970s, such old-line denominations as the Episcopal church are being racked with controversy over whether the ordination of women is permissible. But before we gather Pharisaic robes about ourselves, perhaps we need to look candidly at the way in which we, too, succumbed to some of the cultural and prejudicial patterns of later decades! --www.whwomenclergy.org/articles/

Birdie Bell

Person Name: C. Louise Bell Meter: 10.7.10.7 D Author of "The Old Church Bell" in The Cyber Hymnal C. Louise Bell, also known a Birdie Bell, was born, raised and lived in New York city. She began writing hymns when she was sixteen years old. She is the author of more than 500 hymns, 200 religious poems, and 200 Christmas and Easter lyrics, as well as short stories, and articles. She wrote under the name of Birdie Bell, which is what her family called her. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

A. F. Myers

Meter: 10.7.10.7 D Composer of "LA HABRA" Augustus (Gus) Franklin Myers USA 1850-1902. Born at Ashland, OH, he was a music composer and publisher. He may have taught music, as his title of ‘Professor’, is noted by one source. His song books include: “The life line”, “The search light” (1894), “The seed sower” (1897). He wrote many lyrics and tunes. He died at Toledo, OH. John Perry

C. D. Williams

Person Name: C. D. Williams, 1881-? Meter: 10.7.10.7 D Composer of "[Over the river, shining forever]" in Sacred Songs of the Church

E. M. Kinney

Person Name: Edith H. Kinney Meter: 10.7.10.7 D Author of "There Is Always Time For Prayer" in The Cyber Hymnal

Mrs. J. M. Hunter

1860 - 1942 Meter: 10.7.10.7 D Author of "The Great Glad Day" in The Cyber Hymnal Laura Bell Ogilvie Hunter. Married John Madison Hunter.

T. B. Mosley

1872 - 1927 Meter: 10.7.10.7 D Composer of "ARROWTOWN" in The Cyber Hymnal

H. N. Lincoln

1859 - 1948 Person Name: Horace Neely Lincoln Meter: 10.7.10.7 D Composer of "MONS" in The Cyber Hymnal Horace Neely Lincoln, 1859-1948. Horace was the son of James Lincoln and Emaline King, and husband of Etta Lee Thurmand (married 1887). He moved with his family to Texas when he was seven years old. At age 10, he began attending a singing school conducted by James M. Jolley of Mississippi. In 1880, he taught his first singing class in his old neighborhood school house. Later that year, he attended his first normal music school, taught at Mountain Home (now Holland), Texas. Lincoln had other musical training under L. B. Shook (a former student of Philip Bliss) and John McPherson of Illinois. In 1898, he graduated from the Chicago National College of Music, and in 1906 took a post-graduate course under Horatio Palmer. Lincoln eventually became president of the Songland Music Company, and the World’s Normal Musical College. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (hymntime/tch)