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R. M. McIntosh

1836 - 1889 Arranger of "[Come sinners to the gospel feast]" in Tears and Triumphs No. 3 Used Pseudonym: Robert M. McIntosh ========== Rigdon (Robert) McCoy McIntosh USA 1836-1899 Born at Maury County, TN, into a farming family, he attended Jackson College in Columbia, TN, graduating in 1854. He studied music under Asa Everett in Richmond, VA, and became a traveling singing school teacher. He also served briefly in the Civil War. He wrote several hymns during this period of his life. In 1860 he married Sarah McGlasson, and they had a daughter, Loulie Everett. In 1875 he was appointed head of the Vanderbilt University Music Department in Nashville, TN. In 1877 he joined the faculty of Emory College, Oxford, GA. In 1895 he left Emory College to devote his time to the R M McIntosh Publishing Company. He also served as music editor of the Methodist Episcopal Church South Publishing House for over 30 years. His song book publications include: “Good news” (1876), “Light & life” (1881), “Prayer & praise” (1883), “New life” (1879), “New life #2” (1886), and “Songs of service” (1896). He died in Atlanta, GA. John Perry

A. Brooks Everett

1828 - 1875 Person Name: A. B. Everett Composer of "DUPUYTREN" in Wesleyan Hymn and Tune Book Asa Brooks Everett MusDoc USA 1828-1875. Born in VA, he planned to be a doctor, but decided to study music instead. He studied in Boston for four years and also in Leipzig, Germany for four years.. He composed many gospel tunes and edited “The Sceptre” a New York publication. His brothers, Benjamin and Leonard, were also composers. He and Leonard organized a musical instruction system in Richmond, VA, in the 1850s. By 1861, 50 teachers and singing schools were representing them and using their publications. He died in Nashville, TN. John Perry

Richard D. Torrans

Person Name: Richard Torrans Arranger of "HURSLEY" in Our Great Redeemer's Praise

D. E. Dortch

1851 - 1928 Composer of "[Come, sinners, to the gospel feast]" in Pearls of Paradise Born: March 5, 1851, Theta, Tennessee. Died: November 9/11, 1928, Tennessee. Buried: Rose Hill Cemetery, Columbia, Tennessee. Dortch was teaching music in Maury, Tennessee, in 1880, and was working as an evangelist by 1886. His works include: Tidings of Joy (Columbia, Tennessee: 1878) National Tidings of Joy (Nashville, Tennessee: National Baptist Convention of America, 1878) Gospel Melodies, with William Dale & Charles Pollock (Nashville, Tennessee: Cumberland Presbyterian Publishing House, 1890) Spirit and Life, with Edmund Lorenz (Dayton, Ohio: Christian Publishing Association, 1893) Choice Songs (Nashville, Tennessee: National Baptist Convention of America, 1894) Gospel Voices (Nashville, Tennessee: South-Western Publishing House, 1895) Gospel Voices No. 3 (Columbia, Tennessee: David E. Dortch, 1902) Hymns of Victory, Parts 1 and 2 (Columbia, Tennessee: Dortch Publishing Company, 1905) Happy Greetings to All (Charlotte, North Carolina: Dortch Publishing Company, 1916) © Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

1707 - 1791 Person Name: Huntington Author of "Come, sinners, to the gospel feast" in Hymns for the Sanctuary and Social Worship Born: August 24, 1707, Astwell House, Nottinghamshire, England. Died: June 17, 1791, London, England. Buried: St. Helen’s Church, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicester, England. Selena Huntingdon, née Shirley, Countess of, daughter of Washington, Earl Ferrers, was born Aug. 24, 1707; married to Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntindon, June, 1728; and d. in London, June 17, 1701. At an early age she received serious religious impressions, which continued with her, and ruled her conduct through life. She was a member of the first Methodist Society, in Fetter Lane, London, and the first Methodist Conference was held at her house in June, 1744. Her sympathies, however, were with the Calvinism of G. Whitefield, and when the breach took place between Whitefield and Wesley she joined the former. Her money was freely expended in chapel building, in the founding of Trevecca College, South Wales (now Cheshunt), and in the support of her preachers. A short time before her death the Connection which is known by her name was founded; and at her death it numbered more than sixty chapels. For use in these chapels she compiled A Select Collection of Hymns. Her own part in hymn-writing is most uncertain. The hymns, "Come, Thou Fount of every blessing," and "O when my righteous Judge shall come", have been specially claimed for her, but upon insufficient testimony. No mention of these hymns as being by her is made in her Life and Times, 1839. Miller says, "although the Countess was not much known as a hymn-writer, yet it is proved beyond doubt that she was the author of a few hymns of great excellence" (Singers & Songs, 1869, p. 183): but he neither names the hymns, nor submits the evidence. It is most uncertain that she ever wrote a hymn; and it is quite clear that upon reliable evidence not one has yet been ascertained to be of her composing. Her history and that of her Connexion are elaborately set forth in The Life and Times of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, London, Painter, 1839. --Dictionary of Hymnology, John Julian, 1907.

Simei Monteiro

b. 1943 Person Name: Ṣimei Monteiro Composer of "FESTA" in Help us to Help Each Other Simei Monteiro is a Brazilian poet, composer, translator, author and editor. She was Born in Belém, PA, Brazil in 1943. Her songs and translations appear in several hymn books and collections of sacred songs in Brazil, Latin America, USA, Europe, and Asia. She has a degree in Portuguese, French Language and Literature, and a Degree in Artistic Education. She is interested in worship and the arts, and her book: The Song of Life, explores the relationship between Hymnody and Theology. Until 2010, she was a missionary of The United Methodist Church, serving with the World Council of Churches (WCC), in Geneva, Switzerland, in the position of Worship Consultant. Simei is married to a Methodist pastor and has two adult daughters, two granddaughters, and a grandson. Simei Monteiro

John Clements

Person Name: J. C. Author (chorus) of "His Precious Blood" in The Gospel Trumpeter

Edward S. Fogg

Person Name: E. S. Fogg Composer of "[Come sinners to the gospel feast]" in Triumphant Songs No.2 Late 19th Century Fogg was an evangelist and played the cornet. As of 1894, he was apparently living in or near Cincinnati, Ohio. His works include: Life and Light No. 2, with T. W. Barker (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1894) --www.hymntime.com/tch

F. D. Huntington

1819 - 1904 Person Name: Frederic D. Huntingdon Author of "Come sinner! to the gospel feast" in The Church Praise Book Huntington, Frederic Dan, D.D., was born at Hadley, Massachusetts, in 1819, and graduated at Amherst College, 1839, and Cambridge Divinity School, 1842. From 1842 to 1855 he was an Unitarian Minister in Boston; and from 1855 Professor of Christian Morals, and University Preacher, at Harvard. In 1859 he received Episcopal Ordination. He was for some time a Rector in Boston; and in 1869 he was consecrated Bishop of Central New York. With Dr. F. D. Hedge he edited the Unitarian Hymns for the Church of Christ, Boston, 1853. This collection contains three of his hymns:— 1. 0 Love Divine, lay on me burdens if Thou wilt. Supplication. 2. 0 Thou, in Whose Eternal Name. Ordination. 3. 0 Thou that once on Horeb stood. God in Nature. The cento, "Father, Whose heavenly kingdom lies," in the Hymns of the Spirit, Boston, 1864, is from No. 2. Dr. Huntington has also edited, with Dr. Hedge, Elim: Hymns of Holy Refreshment, a collection of Sacred Poetry. From this work his hymn for Burial, "So heaven is gathering one by one," is taken. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology