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David Nelson

1793 - 1844 Hymnal Number: 111 Author of "For, O we stand on Jordan's strand" in Songs of Zion Nelson, David, M.D., son of Henry Nelson, was born near Jonesborough, East Tennessee, Sept. 24, 1793. He graduated at Washington College, Virginia, in 1810, and took his M.D. degree at Philadelphia in 1812. He acted for some time as a surgeon in the war against Great Britain. During that time he became an infidel, but returning to the faith, he, in 1823, resigned medicine and took up theology, and subsequently became a Presbyterian Minister. He held several appointments, and founded two manual-labour colleges, one at Greenfields, and the second near Quincy, Illinois. He died Oct. 17, 1844. His hymn, "My days are gliding swiftly by" (Death Anticipated), was written in 1835, to be sung to the tune of "Lord Ullin's Daughter." It is exceedingly popular. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Jonathan Evans

1748 - 1809 Hymnal Number: 124 Author of "Hark! the voice of love and mercy" in Songs of Zion Evans, Jonathan, born at Coventry in 1748 or 1749. He was the son of a working man, and as a youth was employed in a ribbon manufactory. About 1778 he joined the congregation at Coventry, over which the Rev. G. Burder was pastor. He began preaching at Foleshill, near Coventry, in 1782, and in 1795 he began his stated ministry there, retaining the same to his death on Aug. 31, 1809. Two biographical notices of him appeared in the Evangelical Magazine (Oct. 1809, and March 1847), and also several of his hymns. Two of his hymns appeared in Burder's Collection, 1784, and another in the 2nd edition the same year. His best known hymns are, "Come, Thou soul-transforming Spirit,” and "Hark! the voice of love and mercy;" q.v. He published no poetical work or collection of hymns. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

H. N. Lincoln

1859 - 1948 Hymnal Number: 160 Composer of "[In the shadow of the rock let me rest]" in Songs of Zion 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)

Edmund Jones

1722 - 1765 Hymnal Number: 173 Author of "Come, humble sinner, in whose breast" in Songs of Zion Jones, Edmund, son of the Rev. Philip Jones, Cheltenham, was born in 1722, and attended for a time the Baptist College at Bristol. At the age of 19 he began to preach for the Baptist Congregation at Exeter, and two years afterwards he became its pastor. In 1760 he published a volume of Sacred Poems. After a very-useful ministry he died April 15, 1765. From an old manuscript record of the Exeter Baptist Church, it appears that it was under his ministry in the year 1759, that singing was first introduced into that Church as a part of worship. As a hymn-writer he is known chiefly through:— Come, humble sinner, in whose breast. This hymn appeared in Rippon's Baptist Selection, 1181, No. 355, in 1 stanza of 4 lines, and headed, "The successful Resolve—'I will go in unto the King,' Esther iv. 16." It has undergone several changes, including:— 1. "Come, sinner, in whose guilty breast." In the Methodist Free Church Sunday School Hymn Book, 1860. 2. “Come, trembling sinner, in whose breast." This is in a great number of American hymn-books. 3. “Come, weary sinner, in whose breast." Also in American use. Miller, in his Singers & Songs of the Church, 1869, p. 333, attributes this hymn to a Welsh Baptist hymn-writer of Trevecca, and of the same name. Rippon, however, says in the first edition of his Selection that Edmund Jones, the author of No. 333, was pastor of the Baptist Church at Exon, Devon. This decides the matter. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================ Jones, Edmund, p. 605, ii. In The Church Book, by L. W. Bacon, N. Y., 1883, No. 279 begins with stanzas ii. of Jones's hymn, "Come, humble sinner, &c," and begins:—"I'll go to Jesus, though my sin." Also note that in that article the words “author of No. 333," should read "author of No. 355." --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Arthur W. French

Hymnal Number: 186 Author of "Some Sweet Day" in Songs of Zion 19th Century

Robert J. Powell

Person Name: R. J. Powell Hymnal Number: 127 Composer of "[Rock of Ages, cleft for me]" in Songs of Zion

W. F. Cosner

1845 - 1880 Hymnal Number: 189 Author of "Look Up, the Stars Are Shining" in Songs of Zion William F. Cosner

L. B. Shook

Hymnal Number: 142 Composer of "[When wrap'd in mists and shadows here]" in Songs of Zion

Charles K. Langley

1852 - 1904 Person Name: Chas. K. Langley Hymnal Number: 25 Composer of "[When this life is o'er]" in Songs of Zion Charles King Langley, Sr., 1852-1904 Born: March 17, 1852, Marysville, Ohio. Died: 1904, Stuttgart, Arkansas, of typhoid fever. Buried: Fairmount Cemetery, Belcher, Arkansas. Music ALPERTON CROWN HIM WITH REJOICING GOING ON JUDAH'S STAR IS RISEN ON WHICH SIDE WILL YOU BE FOUND? WE'LL FOLLOW ON --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Frances C. Van Alstyne

1820 - 1915 Person Name: F. C. Van Alstyne Hymnal Number: 52 Author of "Lord, at Thy mercy seat" in Songs of Zion See Crosby, Fanny, 1820-1915