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Michele Palma

Translator of "Mi Parla Gesu'" in The Cyber Hymnal

Palmer

Author of "Try, Try Again" in Junior Hymns

A. Palmer

Author of "Farewell, mother, Jesus calls me"

A. C. Palmer

1845 - 1882 Author of "Ready to suffer grief or pain"

A. H. Palmer

Composer of "[O sei getrost und ruhe sanft]" in Polyhymnia

1813 - 1891 Author of "If there's a time completely blest" Palmer, Albert G. (North Stonington, Connecticut, May 11, 1813--June 30, 1891, Stonington). Baptist. Classical and theological study at Kingston and Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and Andover, Massachusetts. Pastorates at Westerly, R.I., 1837-1843; Stonington, Conn., 1843-1852; First Baptist Church, Syracuse, New York, 1852-1855; Birdgeport, Conn., 1855-1858; Wakefield, R.I., 1858-1861; Stonington, 1861-1891. Published Psalms of Faith and Songs of Life (1884). Author of "If there's a time completely blest" in Select Hymns, Lindsley and Davis publishers, 1836. Translated Latin hymn of Musculus entitled "The Dying Christian to his Soul." Poet John G. Whittier said of Psalms of Faith and Songs of Life that "the religious pieces are especially valuable. The airs of heaven seem flowing over them." See: Hiscox, Edward Thruston. (1894). A Memorial of Albert Gallatin Palmer, D.D., preacher, pastor, poet, scholar . . . Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society. --E. F. Quinn, DNAH Archives

Albert W. Palmer

Author of "Onward, Lord and Master"

Alice Freeman Palmer

1855 - 1902 Author of "How sweet and silent is the place" in The Hymnal of Praise Palmer, Alice, née Freeman, born at Colesville, N.Y., in 1855, and graduated from Michigan University, 1876. She took great interest in education, and held several responsible positions in connection therewith, including that of Dean of the Women's Department of the University of Chicago 1892-95. She held the degrees of PH.D., L.H.D., and LL.D. Married in 1887 to Prof. George H. Palmer, LL.D. She died suddenly in Paris in 1902. Her hymn "How sweet and silent is the place " (Holy Communion) was written in 1901. [M. C. Hazard, Ph. D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)