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Charles Dunbar

1858 - 1862 Person Name: C. H. Dunbar Hymnal Number: d549 Author of "Home beyond the tide" in The Book of Worship
Charles Dunbar

Joseph Swain

1723 - 1792 Hymnal Number: d214 Author of "I stand on Zion's mount" in The Book of Worship Joseph Swain born in 1723 in Reading, Mass, graduated at Harvard College in 1744; was schoolmaster at Reading in 1746; was ordained as pastor of the Congregationalist Church at Wenham, Mass in 1750. He was the author of several hymns. He was pastor of his church for forty-two years, until he died June 27, 1792. Swain and allied families, compiled by William C. Swain, Milwaukee,Wis: Press of Swain & Tate Company, 1896
Joseph Swain

John Hawkesworth

1715 - 1773 Person Name: J. Hawkesworth Hymnal Number: d235 Author of "The waking hour" in The Book of Worship Hawkesworth, John, LL.D. (b. 1715, and d. Nov. 1773), a writer in the Gentleman's Magazine, proprietor and editor of the Adventurer, and friend of Johnson, Warton, and other literary men of note, published, in 1760, Poems and Translations, and was the author of the well-known Morning hymn "In sleep's serene oblivion laid." This hymn was composed in 1773, "about a month before his death, in a wakeful hour of the night, and dictated to his wife on rising. It appeared in the Universal Theological Magazine for March, 1802." (Miller's Singers & Songs, &c, p. 210.) It was given in Collyer's Selection, 1812; the Leeds Hymn Book, 1853; and others; and is in somewhat extensive use in America. It sometimes begins, as in the American Unitarian Hymns for the Church of Christ, 1853, with stanza ii., "Newborn, I bless the waking hour." -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology
John Hawkesworth

George Crabbe

1754 - 1832 Hymnal Number: d419 Author of "Pilgrim, burdened with thy sin, Haste to Zion's" in The Book of Worship Crabbe, George, LL.B., born at Aldborough, Suffolk, Dec. 24, 1754, and educated for the medical profession, but after practising for a short time, he turned his attention to literature, and subsequently took Holy Orders. He was successively Curate of Aldborough and of Stathern, and Incumbent of Evershot, Mirston and Trowbridge. Died at Trowbridge, Feb. 3, 1832. He received his degree from the Archbishop of Canterbury. Although well known as a poet, his hymns are very few, and but little known. His works include The Village; The Parish Register, 1807; and others. From The Parish Register, his hymn, "Pilgrim, burdened with thy sin" (q.v.) is taken. Crabbe's collected Works were published, with a Memoir, by his son, in 1834. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
George Crabbe

Maria B. W. Barnes

1836 - 1873 Hymnal Number: d449 Author of "Yes, O yes, in that land" in The Book of Worship Christened Maria Burbank Williams, her family called her Kitty. Used the pseudonym Kate Cameron. See also Cameron, Kate, 1836-1873
Maria B. W. Barnes

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