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Aldine S. Kieffer

1840 - 1904 Hymnal Number: d8 Author of "Earthly cares will soon be ended" in Heavenly Voices Full name Aldine Silliman Kiefer

W. T. Dale

1845 - 1924 Person Name: William Thomas Dale Hymnal Number: d69 Author of "Pass under the rod" in Heavenly Voices

1843 - 1943 Person Name: L. M. Bateman Hymnal Number: d68 Author of "Jesus is calling for thee" in Heavenly Voices Pseudonym: Grace Glenn; Lucinda M. Beal Bateman lived in Ionia, Michigan. She wrote A book of rhymes to suit the times published about 1886 by N. Chapin & Son (Chicago); Gleams of gold published about 1889, and The prohibition speaker: a collection of readings, recitations, dialogues, tableux and songs for temperance and prohibition entertainments published in 1889 by Filmore Bros. (Cincinnati). She married Zadoc Henry Bateman in 1875. They had one daughter, Grace. Dianne Shapiro, from "A book of rhymes to suit the times" and "The Genealogy of Dennis Bowen Caskey and Michelle Lynn Smith" (caskey-family.com/genhome, retrieved 7-1-2018)

Alfred A. Graley

1813 - 1905 Person Name: Alfred Arthur Graley Hymnal Number: d39 Author of "I long to be there" in Heavenly Voices

Martha A. W. Cook

1806 - 1874 Hymnal Number: d26 Author of "In some way or other, the Lord will provide" in Heavenly Voices Martha Elizabeth Duncan Walker Cook USA 1806-1874. Born in Northcumberland County, PA, she married Rev. Parsons Cook, editor of a Boston paper called “The Puritan Recorder”. She contributed to, and for a time, was editor of the “Continental Monthly”. She translated “The life of Chopin”, by Franz Liszt, from the French in 1863. She also translated “Undivine comedy” by Zygmund Krasinski in 1875. She died in Hoboken, NJ. John Perry

Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster

1838 - 1912 Person Name: Margaret E. M. Sangster Hymnal Number: d29 Author of "Nearer to port" in Heavenly Voices

George Gill

1820 - 1880 Hymnal Number: d2 Author of "There'll be no more sorrow" in Heavenly Voices Gill, George, son of William Gill, was born at Tiverton, Devonshire, Jan. 23, 1820, and was for some time a missionary in the South Sea Islands. His hymn, "Beautiful Zion, built above " (Heaven), was "written" the author says, "on the island of Mangaia, South Seas, April, 1850." It was printed in the Juvenile Missionary Magazine in 1852. His re-written form of Phoebe Cary’s “One Sweetly Solemn Thought” beginning “this sweetly solemn thought” is dated 1861 and also appeared in the Juvenile Missionary Magazine, Gill left the South Sea in 1860, and in 1861 became pastor of Wesgate Congregational Chapel, Burnley. He died Aug. 19, 1880. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

H. B. Hartzler

1840 - 1920 Person Name: Henry B. Hartzler Hymnal Number: d21 Author of "Trusting in the promise" in Heavenly Voices Hartzler, Henry Burns. (York County, Pennsylvania, March 23, 1840--1920). Evangelical. Licensed 1869, pastor Trinity Church, York Penn., in 1873-1874; editor of The Messenger in 1870s and 1880s; taught Bible in Mt. Hermon school, Northfield, Massachusetts. Was associated with D.L. Moody. Went with the United Evangelical CHurch in the schism, was editor of its Evangel 1894-1902. Editor of and hymn-contributor to Evangelischer Gesangbuch and Hymn Book of the United Evangelical Church. Bishop of that denomination 1902-1910. Most famous hymn was "Go and seek the lost and dying." --Ellen Jane Lorenz, DNAH Archives

Kate Sumner Burr

1842 - 1902 Hymnal Number: d62 Author of "Work and pray, yes, work and pray" in Heavenly Voices Born: September 24, 1842, Woodbridge, Michigan. Buried: Sunnyside Cemetery, Williamson, New York. Wife of Dr. Henry Newton Burr, Kate lived in Walworth, New York. She contributed several poems to the Independent and other journals. Sources: Findagrave, accessed 18 Nov 2016 © The Cyber Hymnal™. Used by permission. (www.hymntime.com)

Joel Swartz

1827 - 1914 Hymnal Number: d30 Author of "How tender its tone" in Heavenly Voices Lutheran pastor and poet. Born in 1827 in Shenandoah County, Virginia. Was a pastor in Baltimore and Pennsylvania