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Harriet Ware Hall
1841 - 1889 Person Name: Harriet Hall Hymnal Number: d287 Author of "Weary am I, go to rest" in Heart and Voice Hall, Harriet Ware. (Boston, Massachusetts, September 15, 1841--March 18, 1889, Boston). She was a lifelong resident of Boston, a member of King's Chapel. Two small books by her were privately printed, one a collection of poems entitled A Book for Friends, 1888, the other entitled Essays, printed posthumously in 1890. The first book contains a hymn beginning "Lord, beneath thine equal hand" in three stanzas, 7.7.7.7.D., dated February 10, 1869, and written for the installation of Rev. E.H. Hall at Worcester, Mass., in 1869. It is included in the Isles of Shoals Hymn Book, 1908, the first line altered to read "Lord, beneath whose equal hand."
--Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives
Harriet Ware Hall
H. C. Andersen
1805 - 1875 Person Name: Hans Christian Andersen Hymnal Number: d33 Author of "Child Jesus came from heaven to earth" in Heart and Voice Andersen, Hans Christian, son of poor parents, was born at Odense, Denmark, April 2, 1805, and died Aug. 4, 1875. He is well known as a poet, and a writer for children. His Christmas Carol, "Child Jesus comes from heavenly height," translated from the Danish, is in The Evangelical Hymnal, N. Y., 1880.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
H. C. Andersen
J. A. Mitchell
1849 - 1905 Hymnal Number: d14 Author of "All things bless thee" in Heart and Voice Mitchell, James Alexander, B.A., born in Edinburgh, Nov. 19th, 1849, and since a Congregational Minister in Nottingham. He has written a number of hymns for use at Anniversaries. One of these, written in 1880, appears in W. R. Stevenson's School Hymnal, 1880, “All things bless Thee, God most holy" (Praise to the Father).
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Mitchell, J. A., p, 1580, i. He was Principal of Nottingham Congregational Institute 1897-1903, and subsequently Secretary to the Congregational Union. Died in April 1905.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
J. A. Mitchell
Abiel A. Livermore
1811 - 1892 Hymnal Number: d1 Author of "A holy air is breathing round a fragrance" in Heart and Voice Livermore, Abiel Abbot, D.D. was born at Wilton, New Hampshire, Oct. 30, 1811, and graduated at Harvard in Arts, in 1833; and Divinity, 1836. The latter year he was ordained as a Unitarian Minister, and became Pastor at Keene, New Hampshire, 1836; Cincinnati, 1850; Yonkers, New York, 1857. In 1863 he removed to Meadville, Pennsylvania, as the President of the Theological School. Dr. Livermore is the author of various works, and was the chief editor of the Cheshire Pastoral Association's Christian Hymns, 1844, one of the most widely circulated and estimable of American Unitarian collections. To that collection he contributed "A holy air is breathing round" (Holy Communion), which has passed into several collections, including Martineau's Hymns, &c, 1873. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907), p. 680
Abiel A. Livermore
Louisa May Alcott
1832 - 1888 Hymnal Number: d2 Author of "A little kingdom I possess" in Heart and Voice Alcott, Louisa May, b. Nov. 29, 1833, d. at Concord, March 5, 1888. She published Little Men, Little Women, &c, and also wrote a few hymns for children.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Alcott, Louisa M., p. 1550, i. Mrs. Eva Munson Smith, in her Woman in Sacred Song, 1885, p. 668, gives Miss Alcott's hymn, "A little kingdom I possess," and prints a note thereon from Miss Alcott, dated “Concord, Oct. 7, 1883," in which Miss Alcott says that this hymn is “the only hymn I ever wrote. It was composed at thirteen, and . . . still expresses my soul's desire." The hymn is in the Baptist School Hymnal, 1880, and others.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Louisa May Alcott
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