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Mrs. Bishop Thompson

Person Name: Catherine G. Thompson Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7 Author of "God Has Said, "Forever Blessed"" in The Cyber Hymnal

1828 - 1902 Person Name: Henry H. Beadle Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7 Composer of "TRIUMPH" in The Evangelical Hymnal Harry Hobart Beadle was born in Wallingford, Connecticut. He was a member of the South Congregational Church in Brooklyn and for nearly thirty years he served as organist and also as clerk. In 1861 what was known as the Carroll Guard was organized in the church. It became Company F of the Thirteenth Regiment. Beadle was the Second Lieutenant, then became Captain and then Colonel. He was President of the Thirteenth Regiment Veteran Association. New York Times obituary, December 4, 1902

Hugh Percy Allen

1869 - 1946 Person Name: Hugh Percy Allen (1869-1946) Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7 Composer of "KINGLEY VALE" in Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal

James P. Carrell

1787 - 1854 Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7 Composer of "WATCHMAN (Carrell)" James P. Carrell was a "farmer, Methodist minister, and county clerk in Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia. He was author of the Songs of Zion (1821) and co-author of Virginia Harmony (1831)" (Steel and Hulan 2010). Several of his songs were printed in Kentucky Harmony and its supplements.

William J. Cleveland

Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7 Translator of "Śicapi kin nipi kta e (Lo, he comes, with clouds descending)" in Wakan Cekiye Odowan

R. Huntington Woodman

1861 - 1943 Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7 Composer of "WRENTHAM (Woodman)"

John Anketell

1835 - 1905 Person Name: John H. Anketell Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7 Author of "Lord, Thy Word Abideth Ever" in The Cyber Hymnal Anketell, John, M.A., was born at New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A., March 8, 1835, and educated at Yale College, and the University of- Halle-Wittenberg, Prussian Saxony. He was ordained deacon of the American Episcopalian Church in 1859, and priest in 1860. He founded (Stanza John's (American) Episcopal Church in Dresden in 1869. Subsequently he became Professor of Hebrew and Greek Exegesis in the Seabury Divinity School. Mr. Anketell published in 1889 Gospel and Epistle Hymns for the Christian Year, N.Y. He has also translated about 120 hymns from the German, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, French, Spanish, Danish, Italian, and Syriac, which were published in the Church Review, N.Y., 1876 and later, and in other periodicals. A few of those from the Latin are noted in Duffield's Latin Hymn-Writers, &c, 1889. Mr. Anketell's original hymns number about 150. Both these and his translations are worthy of notice. He died March 9, 1905. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

G. Everett Hill

Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7 Composer of "REX TRIUMPHANS" in The Hymnal

G. C. E. Ryley

Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7 Composer of "BLEAN"

Sewall S. Cutting

1813 - 1882 Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7 Author of "Christian Profession" Cutting, Sewell Sylvester, D.D., a Baptist Minister, was born at Windsor, Vermont, Jan. 19, 1813, graduated at the University of Vermont, 1835, and was ordained at Boylston, Massachusetts, 1836. He was pastor at Southbridge, Mass., from 1837 to 1845. Editor of the New York Recorder. 1845-50, and 1853-55; and of the Christian Review, 1850-53, and 1855-68. In 1868 he was appointed Professor of Rhetoric and History at the University, Rochester, N. York, and Secretary of the American Baptist Educational Commission. He died at Brooklyn, Feb. 7, 1882. His Historical Vindication of the Baptists was published in 1858. His hymns in common use include:— 1. Father, we bless the gentle care. The love of God. Appeared in Hymns for the Vestry and Fireside, Boston, 1841. 2. Gracious Saviour, we adore Thee. Holy Baptism. Appeared in Winchell's Additional Hymns, 1832, No. 509 (the author being then but 19); again in the Psalmist, 1843, and others. 3. Great God, Thy glories blaze. Praise to God the Father. Appeared in Linsley and Davis's Select Hymns, 1836-41, No. 514. In the Psalmist, 1843, it was altered to "God of the world, Thy glories shine." This is repeated in several collections, including the Baptist Praise Book, 1871, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines. In the Baptist Service of Song, 1871, it is given as "God of the world, near and afar," is expanded into 5 stanzas, and is dated 1835. 4. 0 Saviour, I am blind, Lead Thou my way. The True Guide. This hymn, in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, is also by Dr. Cutting. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)