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Grace Weiser Davis

Person Name: Grace Wieser Davis Hymnal Number: 16 Author of "There is Glory in My Soul" in International Praise Grace Weiser Davis USA 1860-1933? Born near York, PA, she married judge James Nixon Davis in 1889. They attended the Asbury United Methodist Church in York. She became a Methodist evangelist. In 1900 she moved to Jersey City, NJ. She compiled several works, including: “Gems of gospel songs” (1885), “Favorite gospel songs” (1894) with Elisha A. Hoffman, “Childhood conversions” (1897). John Perry

Anton Wilhelm Böhm

1673 - 1722 Person Name: A. W. Boehm Hymnal Number: 207 Translator of "Of Him who Did Salvation Bring" in International Praise Anton Wilhelm Böhm Germany 1673-1722 He was a German Lutheran royal chaplain at St. James Palace in London, having been educated at Lemgo and Hameln and at the University of Halle. He was known as an author and translator. In 1698 he was called to Arolsen to educate the t two daughters of the Count of Woldeck, but his religious opinions were not acceptable to some of the clergy there, and the count let him go. He took an offer to teach for German families in London.At this time he was frail and on a small income. After studying English, he opened a school in 1702. When Prince George of Denmark, at the request of Queen Anne, introduced the “Book of Common Prayer” into his Lutheran Chapel, Boehm was recommendedby his friend Heinrich Ludolf, Secretary to Prince George, to be assistant chaplain. He was to read the prayers, as the chaplain found them too hard to read. In 1705 he became chaplain to the prince. In 1712 he translated and published “Arndt's True Christianity”. He died at 48 in 1722 and ws buried in the Greenwich churchyard, where a monument was erected to his memory. Boehm was a prolific author. Besides works in German, he published translations and editions of other authors, including six treatises on Christianity and other manuscripts, published in 1731 by Professor Johann Jakob Rambach of Halle University. John Perry

Kate D. Ulmer

1874 - 1950 Person Name: Kate Ulmer Hymnal Number: 68 Author of "Teach Me" in International Praise Born in Pennsylvania, lived in Dauphin County Pennsylvania with her husband Benjamin E. Ulmer.

Charles F. Gounod

1818 - 1893 Person Name: C. Gounod Hymnal Number: 167 Composer of "[Praise ye the Father, let ev'ry nation join to sing]" in International Praise Charles F. Gounod (b. Paris, France, 1818; d. St. Cloud, France, 1893) was taught initially by his pianist mother. Later he studied at the Paris Conservatory, won the "Grand Prix de Rome" in 1839, and continued his musical training in Vienna, Berlin, and Leipzig. Though probably most famous for his opera Faust (1859) and other instrumental music (including his Meditation sur le Prelude de Bach, to which someone added the Ave Maria text for soprano solo), Gounod also composed church music-four Masses, three Requiems, and a Magnificat. His smaller works for church use were published as Chants Sacres. When he lived in England (1870-1875), Gounod became familiar with British cathedral music and served as conductor of what later became the Royal Choral Society. Bert Polman

Birdie Bell

Hymnal Number: 123 Author of "The Old Church Bell" in International Praise C. Louise Bell, also known a Birdie Bell, was born, raised and lived in New York city. She began writing hymns when she was sixteen years old. She is the author of more than 500 hymns, 200 religious poems, and 200 Christmas and Easter lyrics, as well as short stories, and articles. She wrote under the name of Birdie Bell, which is what her family called her. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

E. Grace Updegraff

1871 - 1964 Hymnal Number: 36 Composer of "[No beautiful chamber, No soft cradle bed]" in International Praise Eliza Grace Updegraff ((1871-1964) was born in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, the daughter of a Quaker minister, the Rev. David Brainard Updegraff and his wife Eliza Jane. According to the 1880 census, at age nine, Eliza Grace Updegraff lived in Mount Pleasant, in Jefferson County, Ohio with her parents and siblings, three brothers and two sisters, all born in Ohio. When she was composing hymn tunes she did not use her first initial, and is almost always listed as E. Grace Updegraff. She is known as the composer of two hymn tunes: CARTER ("In doubt and temptation I rest Lord, in Thee") and THE HOPE OF THE AGES ("Jesus comes, he comes in glory"). Two of her texts are "What meaneth this, this strange display?" (see Songs of Love and Praise, No.4 , 1897 and Praise Hymns, 1898) and "Are you faithful to the work?" (see Songs of Help, 1917). In 1906 she married the Rev. Dr. John Talmadge Bergen, a minister in the Reformed Church of America. She was his second wife. In her memory her family (Mohns and Hoagland) has established a scholarship at Lake Forest College, Illinois to assist a student heading toward the Christian ministry or majoring in music. Mary Louise VanDyke, from research done by VanDyke and John Dalles

Carrie B. Adams

1859 - 1940 Person Name: C. B. A. Hymnal Number: 156 Author of "Sunday School Cadets" in International Praise Adams, Carrie Belle (Wilson). (Oxford, Ohio, July 28, 1859-1940). Father, David Wilson, song writer, teacher of music. Married, 1880 to Allyn G. Adams, moved to Terre Haute, Indiana. Director and organist, First Congregational Church; Central Christian Church. Teacher (1887-1895), Indiana State Normal School. Wrote many anthems and cantatas, secular and religious, many published by Lorenz. --Keith C. Clark, DNAH Archives =================== Mrs. Carrie B. (Wilson) Adams was born in Oxford, Ohio, July 28, 1859. Her father, Mr. David Wilson, was author of a number of songs and books, also a singing teacher of note in his day, and her mother was quite musically inclined. Her experience with her father in elementary and advanced class work, in children's and harmony classes, her years of musical participation in solo work and in accompanying, in the organization and leadership, not only of choirs, but also of great choral organizations, her close touch with singers of elementary grade, as well as those of great skill and reputation, have given her a breadth of musical thought and practical power of adaptation that constantly enrich her work of composition. Miss Carrie B. Wilson became Mrs. Allyn G. Adams in 1880, and soon after located in Terre Haute, Ind., where her husband was a leading bass singer and interested in large commercial enterprises. Mrs. Adams soon became a leading figure in the musical life of that enterprising city, and has been actively identified with the Choral Club, Treble Clef Club, Rose Polytechnic Glee Club, First Congregational Church and Central Christian Church choirs, as director, chorister and organist. From 1887 to 1895 she occupied the chair of music in the Indiana State Normal School. Her first anthem was published in 1876. Among her best known publications are four anthem books — "Anthem Annual, Nos. 1 and 2," and " Royal Anthems, Nos. 1 and 2" ; "Music for Common Schools"; two sacred cantatas, "Redeemer and King " and "Easter Praise" ; an operetta for church and school use, "The National Flower"; a group of Shakespeare songs from "As You Like it," and a large number of anthems, male choruses, ladies' quartets and miscellaneous pieces in octavo form. http://archive.org/stream/biographyofgospe00hall/biographyofgospe00hall_djvu.txt

Fred S. Shepard

1840 - 1907 Person Name: F. S. H. Hymnal Number: 42 Author of "Jesus Is Calling" in International Praise

William Henry Gardner

Person Name: Wm. H. Gardner Hymnal Number: 119 Author of "Something for Thee" in International Praise Late 19th Century

Ida M. Budd

1859 - 1959 Hymnal Number: 115 Author of "Jesus Leadeth Me" in International Praise Ida M. Budd was born in 1859 in a log cabin in Saginaw County, Michigan. When she was three years old her parents moved to Milford, Michigan. She loved nature and books. She decided to be a school teacher, receiving her teaching certificate when she was fifteen. Her first poem was published in 1881. She is known for her poems for children. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)