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B. C. Unseld

1843 - 1923 Composer of "SWEET DAY" in Church Hymnal, Mennonite Benjamin Carl Unseld, 1843-1923 Born: October 18, 1843, Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Died: November 19, 1923. Buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Shepherdstown, West Virginia. After leaving school at age 14, Unseld worked as a clerk in a country store. He received his first musical instruction around age 15, from a companion who had attended a singing school. He was shown the representation of the scale in the old Carmina Sacra, and had it sung for him. At the friend’s suggestion, he got permission from his pastor to practice on the church organ. Since both boys worked, their only chance to practice was after the store closed at 9:00 p.m., and occasionally at noontime. They went to the church together and took turns, one at the keyboard and the other at the bellows. Shortly after the Battle of Antietam in September 1862, some of which Unseld witnessed, he left home and became a bookkeeper in the general offices of a railroad in Columbia, Pennsylvania. He sang in a choir, and gained further practice reading music. He rented a melodeon and spent much time in his room improvising on it. He bought a copy of Woodbury’s Harmony and Musical Composition, and studied it as well as he could without a teacher. He accepted an invitation to play the organ in the local Methodist church, on the condition that he received the tunes early in the week so he could learn them. This was his first position as an organist. In the spring of 1866, he entered the Musical Institute in Providence, Rhode Island, conducted by Eben Tourjée (founder of the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts, and father of Lizzie Tourjée). There he studied voice, piano, organ, and harmony. After learning of Unseld’s business experience, Dr. Tourjée made him secretary of the school; in 1867, Unseld became the first secretary of the New England Conservatory. Starting in 1870, Unseld attended schools led by Theodore F. Seward. There he met George Webb, Lowell Mason, James McGranahan, Charles Case, and other notables in the music community. In 1874, Unseld taught at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and helped train Fisk’s Jubilee Singers for their European trip. In 1877 and 1878, he was organist and choir master at St. James’ Episcopal Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1879, Unseld moved to New York City, and for 15 years taught, led choirs, composed and published. In New York, his musical headquarters was the publishing house of Biglow & Main Company, where he was in almost daily contact with the popular composers and teachers of the day: Ira Sankey, Horatio Palmer, Hubert Main, Robert Lowry, et al. In 1894, Unseld moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and worked as an editor for the Fillmore Music House. In 1898, he moved to Dayton, Ohio, and worked in a similar capacity for the Lorenz Publishing Company. He moved back to New York City in 1901, then to Hagerstown, Maryland in 1905. He and his wife Sallie were apparently living in Tennessee as of 1920. Unseld’s works include: The Choral Standard (New York: Fillmore Brothers, 1895) Progress in Song, with E. T. Hildebrand (Cincinnati, Ohio: The Fillmore Brothers Company) Unseld was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame in 2004. Sources-- Hall, pp. 239-44 Music-- Ancyra Euphemia He Is Risen Hordville Make Haste! Meschach Twilight Is Falling Unseld Wonderful Message --www.hymntime.com/tch

Garret Colley Wellesley, Earl of Mornington

1735 - 1781 Person Name: G. C. Wellesley Composer of "MORNINGTON" in Standard Hymns and Spiritual Songs Garret Colley Wellesley, Earl of Mornington, father of the Duke of Wellington; b. Dongan, Ireland, 1735; d. there, 1781 Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

Jonathan C. Woodman

1813 - 1894 Person Name: J. C. Woodman Composer of "STATE STREET" in A. M. E. C. Hymnal

Charlotte S. Streatfeild

1829 - 1929 Person Name: C. Streatfield Composer of "LANGTON" in Church Hymnal Streatfield, Charlotte, née Saint, eldest daughter of the Rev. J. J. Saint, Rector of Speldhurst, was born at Speldhurst, Dec. 31, 1829, and married, in 1862, to Charles N. Streatfeild, Lieutenant, Royal Navy, eldest son of Major General Streatfeild, Royal Engineers. Mrs. Streatfeild has published:— (1) Hymns and Verses on the Collects; London, Longmans, 1865. (2) Hymns on the Love of Jesus, and the Home above; Lond., Skeffington & Son, 1877. (3) A Little Garland of the Saints, and Other Verses; Lond., Mowbray, 1877. (4) The Story of the Good Shepherd; Lond., Skeffington, 1885. Mrs. Streatfeild also contributed to Mrs. Brock's Children's Hymn Book, 1881. The following include Mrs. Streatfeild's hymns in common use:— 1. And didst Thou hunger then, 0 Lord. First Sunday in Lent. Appeared in her Hymns and Verses on the Collects, 1865. 2. Brothers, tread the holy portals. For the Dedication of a Church. Published by Skeffington, with music by M. S. Skeffington. A Processional. 3. He scarcely felt the cruel stones. St. Stephen. Published in her Hymns and Verses on the Collects, 1865. 4. High o'er the glittering temple. Gospel for First Sunday in Lent. Contributed to Mrs. Brock's Children's Hymn Book 1881. 5. How beautiful the hills of God. Gospel, First S. in Lent. Contributed to Mrs. Brock's Children's Hymn Book., 1881. 6. I linger round the fold of God. Lent. Published in The Story of the Good Shepherd, 1885. 7. In the Paradise of Jesus. Heaven. Appeared in her Hymns on the Love of Jesus, &c, 1877. 8. Jesus, tender Shepherd, Seeking for Thine own. The Good Shepherd. Published in The Story of the Good Shepherd, 1885. 9. Sweet Shepherd, Thou hast sought me. The Good Shepherd. Appeared in her Hymns on the Love of Jesus, &c, 1877; and The Story of the Good Shepherd, 1885. 10. There is joy amongst the angels. Joy in Heaven over Repenting Sinners. Published in her Hymns on the Love of Jesus, &c, 1877; and The Story of the Good Shepherd, 1885. Mrs. Streatfeild has also a "Litany for a Children's Service," in A Little Garland of the Saints, 1877. Nos. 1,3, 4, 5 and 7 of the above hymns are in Mrs. Brock's Children's Hymn Book, 1881, and they all rank with the sweetest and most tender of modern verses for children. Some have been arranged as songs, and have been set to music by M. S. Skeffington. Mrs. Streatfeild's prose works include Meditations on the Seven Last Words, 1874; and Words of Comfort, 1875. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

William Brown

Person Name: William Browne Author of "The holy Day of Rest" in Laudes Domini

Aldine S. Kieffer

1840 - 1904 Person Name: A. S. Kieffer Composer of "HARTWELL" in Bible School Hymns and Sacred Songs for Sunday Schools and Other Religious Services Full name Aldine Silliman Kiefer

G. W. Linton

Person Name: G. T. Linton Composer of "WELCOME" in Bible School Hymns and Sacred Songs for Sunday Schools and Other Religious Services

Walter Bond Gilbert

1829 - 1910 Composer of "" in Hymnal Walter Bond Gilbert DMus United Kingdom 1829-1910. Born at Exeter, Devon, England, he studied music under Alfred Angel, Samuel Wesley and Henry Bishop. He attended New College, Oxford and the University of Toronto, Canada. He was organist in Devon at Topsham in 1847, Bideford in 1849, Kent at Tonbridge in 1854, Old Colliegiate Church, Maidstone in 1859, Lee in 1866, Boston, Lincolnshirein 1868, and Trinity Chapel in New York City in 1869-1897. He taught music at Tonbridge School, helped found the College of Organists, edited the America Episcopal Hymnal, and wrote a number of monographs, including “Antiquities of Maidstone”. He continued to write church music, producing services, oratorios (including “The Restoration of Israel and St. John, 1857), organ works, and anthems. He died at Headington, Oxford, England. John Perry

William W. Rousseau

Person Name: W. W. Rousseau Composer of "[Welcome, sweet day of rest]" in The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892