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J. Edward Ruark

Person Name: J. Edw. Ruark Hymnal Number: 69 Author of "You May Have the Joybells." in Victory Songs

1876 - 1968 Hymnal Number: 183 Author of "Song To the Flag." in Victory Songs Edith Sanford Tillotson was born and lived her entire life in Corona, New York. She wrote hymns for children as well as poems and librettos. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman

1843 - 1943 Person Name: Mrs. L. M. B. Bateman Hymnal Number: 171 Author of "Little Feet, Be Careful." in Victory Songs 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)

Mary B. Wingate

1845 - 1933 Person Name: Mrs. Mary B. Wingate; Hymnal Number: 98 Author of "Dear to the Heart of the Shepherd." in Victory Songs

E. Edwin Young

1895 - 1995 Person Name: Ensign Edwin Young Hymnal Number: 74 Author of "He Has Accepted Me." in Victory Songs

Geo. Robinson

Hymnal Number: 318 Author of "Come, Thou Fount." in Victory Songs Sometimes attributed as the author of "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing"

Homer A. Hammontree

1884 - 1965 Hymnal Number: 227 Composer of "[Wand’ring afar from the Savior’s side]" in Victory Songs Homer Hammontree was born March 3, 1884, to Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hammontree of Greenback, Tennessee. He graduated from nearby Maryville College in 1909 and, after teaching for a short time at local institutions, attended Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois. During World War I, Hammontree served as evangelist Mel Trotter's song leader, as together they toured U.S. army camps. They continued to work together for the next nineteen years. He also worked with Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver. In 1936, Hammontree returned to Moody as head of the Music Department. He remained in this post until 1942. The same year he received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from his old alma mater, Maryville College. During World War II, he again toured the army camps and sang at evangelistic services. After the war, he both conducted his own evangelistic services and worked with other ministers, such as Paul Beckwith and Howard Hermansen. He left Chicago in 1958 and moved back to Tennessee, where he died February 2, 1965. --www2.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/GUIDES/sc040.htm

J. Dempster Hammond

1841 - 1920 Person Name: Rev. J. Demster Hammond Hymnal Number: 150 Author of "The Whole Wide World." in Victory Songs Born: May 9, 1841, Chenango County, New York. Died: December 3, 1920, Berkeley, California. John was the son of Stephen Yates Hammond (1809-1892) and Martha Adams Hammond (1809-1863), and husband of Sarah Elizabeth Powers Hammond (1843-1918). A minister like his father, he served in the Genesee (now Western New York) Conference, the Wisconsin & Nevada Conference, and the California Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (hymntime.com/tch)