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J. Dempster Hammond

1841 - 1920 Person Name: Rev. J. Demster Hammond Hymnal Number: 35 Author of "The Whole Wide World" in Christian Service 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)

W. S. Brown

Hymnal Number: 211 Author of "As A Volunteer" in Christian Service Songs Early 20th Century

F. G. Burroughs

1856 - 1949 Person Name: Mrs. F. G. Burroughs Hymnal Number: 264 Author of "Transformed" in Christian Service Songs F. G. Burroughs was born in 1856 (nee Ophelia G. Browning) was the daughter of William Garretson Browning, a Methodist Episcopal minister, and Susan Rebecca Webb Browning. She married Thomas E. Burroughs in 1884. He died in 1904. She married Arthur Prince Adams, in 1905. He was a minister. Her poem, "Unanswered yet" which was written in 1879, was published in the The Christian Standard in 1880 with the name F. G. Browning. She also wrote under the name of Ophelia G. Adams and Mrs. T. E. Burroughs. Dianne Shapiro from The Literary Digest, July 29, 1899., The Register, Pine Plains, NY, October 24, 1884, Alumni Record of Wesleyan University, Middleton, Conn. 1921

Irvin H. Mack

Editor of "" in Christian Service Songs Mack & Lincoln Hall founded the Hall-Mack Company music publishing house (later bought by the Rodeheaver Company). Mack’s works include: Boundless Love (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Hall-Mack Company, 1896) The Service of Praise, with Lincoln Hall et al. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Hall-Mack Company, 1900) http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/c/mack_ih.htm

Charles Hutchinson Gabriel, Jr.

1892 - 1934 Person Name: C. H. G., Jr. Hymnal Number: 46 Author of "Tell It To-Day" in Christian Service Songs Born: March 2, 1892, San Francisco, California. Pseudonym: Jean Howard. Gabriel was living with his parents in Cook County, Illinois, in 1910. He was still there in 1920 with his wife Ethel. In 1926, he was musical director and announcer for radio station KLX in Oakland, California. By 1930, he and his wife were in Los Angeles County, California. The January 30, 1926 issue of Colliers magazine said of him: "Gabe" has experienced all those changes which the Fates deem necessary to broaden one’s views. He has taught music in the Indianapolis [Indiana] and Northwestern Conservatories; edited mechanical and automobile magazines; traveled with Billy Sunday; been a newspaper reporter; rewrite man; music editor and book reviewer. In his spare time he has managed to produce eight hundred compositions which have been printed. He first became interested in radio when he was appointed director of WGN in Chicago [Illinois]. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Friedrich von Flotow

1812 - 1883 Person Name: Friedrich Von Flotow Hymnal Number: 147 Composer of "[Another year is dawning] (Flotow)" in Christian Service Songs Friedrich Adolf Ferdinand, Freiherr von Flotow

Howard L. Brown

1889 - 1965 Person Name: H. L. B. Hymnal Number: 288 Author of "Follow, I Will Follow Thee" in Christian Service Songs Howard L. Brown was director of California Christian Endeavor (international church youth organization) between 1930-1940. In those years this was a large organization, especially in LA-Orange County area. He wrote many spiritual songs along with his wife Margaret.