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H. N. Lincoln

1859 - 1948 Person Name: Horace N. Lincoln Hymnal Number: d110 Author of "I would be of use to thee" in Service Songs 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)

I. E. Reynolds

1879 - 1949 Person Name: Isham E. Reynolds Hymnal Number: d129 Author of "Keep the joybells ringing in your heart today" in Service Songs

Richard Hainsworth

Hymnal Number: d172 Author of "Jesus answers prayer" in Service Songs Pseudonymn. See also Lillenas, Haldor, 1885-1959

Ida F. Leyda

1866 - 1943 Hymnal Number: d249 Author of "Story song about Jesus" in Service Songs Buried: Harrison Cemetery, Wapello, Iowa. Leyda’s husband apparently had a publishing company in Wapello, Iowa, and (perhaps later) Chicago, Illinois. Her works include: Junior Hymns and Carols. A Book of Hymns and Services for the Junior Department, 1911 Carols: A Book of Songs and Services for the Beginners and Primary Grades of the Sunday School, 1914 Melodies; for Children’s Voices in the Home and Sunday School (Chicago, Illinois: Leyda Publishing Company, 1916) http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/l/e/y/leyda_if.htm

Chauncey R. Piety

Hymnal Number: d34 Author of "Blessed evening, quiet evening" in Service Songs

Grace W. Owens

Hymnal Number: d52 Author of "God is near, he can hear" in Service Songs

W. J. Rooper

Hymnal Number: d28 Author of "Fight then, good soldiers" in Service Songs

Aurora M. Shumate

Hymnal Number: d21 Author of "A glad, glad day" in Service Songs

Milton S. Littlefield

1864 - 1934 Hymnal Number: d156 Author of "O Son of Man, Thou madest known" in Service Songs Born: August 21, 1864, New York City. Died: June 12, 1934, Corona, Long Island, New York. Littlefield attended Johns Hopkins University and the Union Theological Seminary, and was ordained a Presbyterian minister. His works include: Hymns of Worship and Service for the Sunday School The School Hymnal, 1921 Hymnal for Young People, 1927 Hymns of the Christian Life (New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, posthumously printed in 1937) Sources: Erickson, p. 336 Hughes, pp. 473-74 McCutchan, p. 58 © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime/tch)