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Jonathan Lawrence

1807 - 1833 Hymnal Number: d201 Author of "Look above" in Sunday School Hymn Book Lawrence, Jonathan. (1807--April 26, 1838 [sic]). Born in New York, graduated from Columbia College in 1823. Practiced law. After his death his brother had printed for private circulation a small volume of his writings in prose and verse. --Cleveland, Charles Dexter. (1868). Lyra Sacra Americana. New York: Charles Scribner and Company.

J. Saunderson

Hymnal Number: d348 Author of "Rejoice, rejoice, the promised time is coming" in Sunday School Hymn Book

E. R. Latte

Hymnal Number: d54 Author of "Children of the Sabbath School" in Sunday School Hymn Book

Kennaday

Person Name: Dennaday Hymnal Number: d393 Author of "Sweet Sabbath school, place dear to me" in Sunday School Hymn Book

Hallock

Hymnal Number: d375 Author of "Skeptic, spare that book" in Sunday School Hymn Book

S. P. Williams

Hymnal Number: d415 Author of "The Sabbath school's a place for prayer" in Sunday School Hymn Book

Leta Lyndon

Hymnal Number: d412 Author of "The night comes stealing in" in Sunday School Hymn Book

Charles Dunbar

1858 - 1862 Person Name: C. H. Dunbar Hymnal Number: d470 Author of "Home beyond the tide" in Sunday School Hymn Book

John Dowling

1807 - 1878 Person Name: J. Dowling Hymnal Number: d55 Author of "Children of Zion, what harp notes are stealing" in Sunday School Hymn Book Dowling, John. (Pavensey, Sussex, England, May 12, 1807--July 4, 1878, Middletown, New York). Baptist. Father of Rev. George Thomas Dowling. Educated in England; received D.D. from Transylvania University in 1846. Pastorates in Catskill, New York, 1832-1834; Newport, Rhode Island, 1834-1836; New York, New York, 1844-1852, 1856-1868; Philadelphia, 1852-1856; Newark, New Jersey. Author of various works, including Exposition of the Prophecies (1840), Defence of the Protestant Scriptures (1843), History of Romanism (1845). Edited and translated other works. In 1849, published A New Collection of Hymns, Designed Especially for Use in Conference and Prayer Meetings, and Fmaily Worship (New York: Edward H. Fletcher). The seven hymns in this collection by Dowling are as follows: Come, Lord, dwell in my bosom The weary dove in search or rest O, my soul is cast down A weak and weary dove, with drooping wing Welcome, thrice happy hour Go to the mercy seat Children of Zion! what harp-notes are stealing The last of these was included in other collections as well. --Deborah Carlton Loftis, DNAH Archives

Frances L. Mace

1836 - 1899 Hymnal Number: d330 Author of "Only waiting till the shadows" in Sunday School Hymn Book Mace, Frances P., née Laughton, was born in Orono, Maine, Jan. 15, 1836, and married in 1855 to Benjamin H. Mace, a Lawyer of Bangor. Her hymn "Only waiting till the shadows" (Heaven Anticipated), was written in 1854, and printed in a local newspaper, the Waterville Mail (Maine), Sep. 7, 1854, in 4 stanzas of 8 lines. It has attained a wide circulation in Great Britain and America. Full text in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878. See Woman in Sacred Song, 1885, p. 139, for counter-claim on behalf of Mrs. F. A. F. Wood-White. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ================== Born: January 15, 1834, Orono, Maine. Died: July 20, 1899. Buried: Los Gatos Memorial Park, San Jose, California. In 1837, Frances’ family moved to Foxcroft (now Dover-Foxcroft), Maine, where she grew up. By age 10, she was studying Latin, and had verses published by age 12. The family later moved to Bangor, Maine, where she graduated from high school, and studied German and music with private teachers. In 1855, she married lawyer Benjamin F. Mace of Bangor; in 1885, they moved to San Jose, California. They had eight children, four of whom reached adulthood. Her works include: Legends, Lyrics and Sonnets, 1883 Under Pine and Palm, 1888 Sources: Willard, pp. 482-83 http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/c/mace_fl.htm