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Asahel Nettleton

1783 - 1844 Composer of "NETTLETON" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) Nettleton, Asahel, D.D., a well-known Connecticut evangelist, was born at North Killingworth, Connecticut, April 21, 1783, and educated at Yale College, graduating in 1809. In 1811 he was licenced to preach, receiving ordination in 1817. He never settled as a pastor with any congregation, but preached in Western Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York; in Virginia, 1827-28; and also in Great Britain in 1831. He died in 1843. His Memoirs, Sermons and Remains were published in 1844. Dr. Hatfield ascribes to him a hymn:— "Come, Holy Ghost, my soul inspire— This one great gift impart;" apparently on no other ground than that it appeared anonymously (as did many others) in his Village Hymns, in 1824, and has been traced no further. Nettleton's hymnological work centred in the compiling of his Village Hymns, from which more hymns of the older American writers have passed into English collections than from any other source. He knew and could appreciate a good hymn, but it is doubtful if he ever did or ever could have written one. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Is. Smith

1734 - 1805 Person Name: Isaac Smith Author of "Come, thou Fount of ev'ry blessing" in The Primitive Methodist Church Hymnal Isaac Smith; published "A Collection of Psalm Tunes" about 1770 Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

William Boyce

1711 - 1779 Person Name: William Boyce 1711-79 Later form of melody by of "SHARON" in The Australian Hymn Book with Catholic Supplement William Boyce (baptised 1711 – d. 7 February 1779) was an English composer and organist. See also in: Wikipedia

F.-H. Barthélémon

1741 - 1808 Person Name: F. H. Barthelemon Composer of "AUTUMN" in Life-Time Hymns French violinist, composer, teacher, he became active in England, playing in an Italian comedy orchestra and led a band. He wrote opera, ballet, theatre music and ballads, popular songs, masques, concertos and 6 symphonies. John Perry

John Wilson

1905 - 1992 Person Name: John Wilson, 1905-1992 Harmonizer of "NETTLETON" in Common Praise Biographical article in the journal of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland: https://hymnsocietygbi.org.uk/1992/10/treasure-no-58-john-wilson-1905-92

Lucius Chapin

1760 - 1842 Person Name: Chapin Composer of "OLNEY" in The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion (New ed. thoroughly rev. and much enl.) Lucius Chapin, 1760-1842 Born: April 25, 1760, Longmeadow (near Springfield), Massachusetts. Died: December 24, 1842, Hamilton County, Ohio. Buried: Originally at Walnut Hills Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio in 1842. Reinterred at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio, January 26, 1858. Lucius’ brother was Amzi Chapin. In 1775, Lucius joined the Continental Army in Boston as a fifer; re-enlisting in 1776, he served at the Battles of Ticonderoga and Stillwater, and endured the infamous winter of 1777-8 at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, with George Washington. After the war, he conducted singing schools in Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and in 1787 moved to Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, later teaching in Rocbridge, Augusta and Rockingham Counties. Around 1797, he moved to Vernon, Kentucky. He retired in 1835 and moved to Hamilton County, Ohio. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Annabel Morris Buchanan

1888 - 1983 Arranger of "I WILL ARISE (RESTORATION)" in Folk Hymns of America 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

Charlotte Alington Barnard

1830 - 1869 Person Name: Charlotte A. Barnard Composer of "BROCKLESBURY" in The Hymnal and Order of Service Mrs. Charles Barnard, usage: Claribel. See also Claribel, 1830-1869

Samuel Webbe

1770 - 1843 Composer of "CORINTH" in Small Church Music Samuel Webbe, Jr. (1770-1843), adapted the tune RICHMOND. He was organist at Paradise Street Unitarian Church, Liverpool (1798). Later he succeeded his father as organist at the Spanish Ambassador’s Chapel, London (1817), and then St. Nicholas’ Church and St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Chapel, Liverpool. --The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993

Edward C. Deas

? - 1944 Person Name: E. C. Deas Arranger of "[Come, Thou Fount of ev'ry blessing]" in Songs and Spirituals Edward C. Deas (unknown – 1944) was a hymnist, arranger of spirituals, music publisher, and music authority for the AME Church. Deas’s hymns, such as “Big Business in Glory” (1921) and “Shine for Jesus” (1925), reflect the simplicity and usage of common language characteristic of the 19th-century revival hymn. Deas also wrote the book Songs and Spirituals of Negro Composition (1928). --Encyclopedia of African American Music, Volume 3, edited by Emmett George Price