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Graham Maule

1958 - 2019 Person Name: Graham Maule, b. 1958 Scripture: John 1:43-51 Author of "Will you come and follow me" in Singing the Faith

Paul Leddington Wright

b. 1951 Person Name: Paul Leddington Wright, b. 1951 Scripture: John 1:43-51 Composer of "LONDONDERRY AIR" in Singing the Faith

Basil E. Bridge

b. 1927 Person Name: Basil E. Bridge (1927-) Scripture: John 1:43-51 Author of "The Son of God Proclaim" in Common Praise (1998)

1922 - 2022 Person Name: George W. Williams, b. 1922 Scripture: John 1:45 Author of "Come Now, and Praise the Humble Saint" in Glory and Praise (3rd. ed.) Author of several DNAH biographical essays.

Annabel Morris Buchanan

1888 - 1983 Person Name: Annabel Morris Buchanan, 1888-1983 Scripture: John 1:45 Adapter of "LAND OF REST" in Glory and Praise (3rd. ed.) Born: October 22, 1888, Groesbeck, Texas. Died: January 6, 1983, Paducah, Kentucky. Buried: Round Hill Cemetery, Marion, Virginia. Daughter of William Caruthers Morris and Anna Virginia Foster, and wife of John Preston Buchanan, Anna received her musical training at the Landon Conservatory of Music, Dallas, Texas (to which she received a scholarship at age 15); the Guilmant Organ School, New York; and studying with Emil Liebling, William Carl, and Cornelius Rybner, among others. She taught music in Texas; at Halsell College, Oklahoma (1907-08); and at Stonewall Jackson College, Abingdon, Virginia (1909-12). In 1912, she married John Preston Buchanan, a lawyer, writer, and senator, from Marion, Virginia; they moved to their home, Roseacre, in Marion, where they had four children. Buchanan served as president of the Virginia Federation of Music Clubs in 1927, and helped organize the first Virginia State Choral Festival in 1928, and White Top Folk Festivals (1931-41). After her husband’s death in 1937, she sold Roseacre and moved to Richmond, Virginia, with her two youngest children. She taught music theory and composition and folk music at the University of Richmond (1939-40); during the summers, at the New England Music Camp, Lake Messalonskee, Oakland, Maine (1938-40); and at the Huckleberry Mountain Artists Colony near Hendersonville, North Carolina, in 1941. She later moved to Harrisonburg, Virginia, and taught at Madison College (1944-48). In 1951, she moved to Paducah, Kentucky. She later became the archivist of the folk music collecting project of the National Federation of Music Clubs, serving until 1963. Buchanan’s works include: Folk-Hymns of America (New York: J. Fischer, 1938) American Folk Music, 1939 Sources: Findagrave, accessed 15 Nov 2016 Hughes, pp. 329-30 Hustad, p. 213 © The Cyber Hymnal™. Used by permission. (www.hymntime.com

Margarette W. Snodgrass

Person Name: Margarette Snodgrass Scripture: John 1:46 Author of "Come and See" in Beautiful Songs; a new and choice collection of songs for the sunday school. Also, a responsive service for each month in the year

J. W. Bischoff

1850 - 1909 Scripture: John 1:46 Composer of "[There's a glorious invitation]" in Beautiful Songs; a new and choice collection of songs for the sunday school. Also, a responsive service for each month in the year John W. Bischoff was born in 1849, became blind at the age of two years, came to the Congregational Church as organist and choir-director at the age of twenty-five, and remained thirty-five years up to the date of his death on Memorial Day, May 30, 1909. He was a prolific composer, most of his work being of the lyric style. In his first book, Crystal Songs, compiled in 1877 with the assistance of Otis F. Presbrey, there are thirty-two tunes of his compoistion. During many years of his service he provided music loves with a series of monthly concerts, at which a high grade of music was rendered. American writers and compilers of sacred music by Frank J. Metcalf (New York; Cincinnati: Abingdon Press, 1925)

Ralph Harrison

1748 - 1810 Person Name: Ralph Harrison, 1748-1860 Scripture: John 1:51 Composer of "WARRINGTON" in Together in Song

William Boyce

1711 - 1779 Scripture: John 1:51 Composer of "HALTON HOLGATE" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) William Boyce (baptised 1711 – d. 7 February 1779) was an English composer and organist. See also in: Wikipedia

S. F. Jones

1826 - 1895 Person Name: Samuel Flood Jones, 1826-1895 Scripture: John 1:29-51 Composer of "ST. CATHERINE (Flood Jones)" in Singing the Faith Jones, Samuel Flood, M.A., son of William Jones, for many years the Secretary of the Religious Tract Society, was born in London in 1826, and educated at Pembroke College, Oxford (B.A. 1851). Taking Holy Orders he was Minister of St. Matthew's, Spring Gardens, London, 1854-76; Lecturer of Bow, London, 1858-76; Minor Canon, Westminster Abbey, 1859; Precentor, 1869; Vicar of St. Botolph, Aldersgate, London, 1876; and Priest in Ordinary to the Queen, 1869. In 1860 he published Hymns of Prayer and Praise, Lond., Dalton & Lucy. This book contained 100 hymns, of which the following were by Mr. Jones:— 1. Here all is strife and war. The Present and the Future. 2. Jesus, my Advocate in heaven. Jesus the Advocate. This is adapted from "Star of the Sea." 3. Lord of light, this day our Guardian be. Morning. 4. This is the day of light, When first the silv'ry dawn. Sunday. Written long before 1860. Mr. Jones's most popular hymn is:— 5. Father of Life, confessing. Holy Matrimony. This was written about 1867, at the request of the late Dean Stanley for use at Marriages in Westminster Abbey. It has passed into several hymn-books. Mr. Jones's brother, William Henry Rich-Jones, M.A., Vicar of Bradford-on-Avon, and Canon of Salisbury (b. 1817, d. 1885), contributed :— 1. Haste, my soul, thy God adore. God the Sustainer. 2. Lord, Thy Solemn Passion past. Ascension. (In W. J. Blew's Collection, 1852-55, but not his) to his Hymns, &c, as above; and his wife Catherine Flood Jones (b. 1828) also contributed:— Pilgrim, bend thy footsteps on. Onward. to the same work. He died Feb. 26, 1895. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ====================== Jones, Samuel F., p. 606, i. We find that his hymn “Father of life, confessing," was published with Turle's music in Feb., 1866. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)