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John C. Morgan

1831 - 1899 Person Name: Dr. J. C. Morgan Author of "All My Doubts I Give to Jesus" in Songs of Victory John Coleman Morgan MD USA 1831-1899. Born in Philadelphia, PA, he attended school and became a drug clerk, then a surgeon’s steward in the U.S. Navy. In 1850 he matriculated to PA Medical University, graduating in 1852, studying medicine and homeopathics. He was appointed professor of Materia Medica at PMU. In 1856 he married Sallie Levick of Philadelphia and relocated to Hamilton, IL, finding insufficient infrastructure to practice his medical discipline. He then moved to St. Louis, MO, where in 1857 he co-founded the Homeopathic Medical College of MO. In 1858 he settled in Alton, IL, and, under mentorship of William T Babb, had a surgeon’s commission with the 29th MO Infantry Volunteers during the Civil War. In 1865 he returned to Philadelphia, PA, and took the Chair of Anatomy at the Hahnemannian Institute for Homeopathic Medicine there. From 1867-1875 he was the first faculty surgeon there. In 1875 he left and took a position with the University of Michigan as a professor of Homeopathic Theory and Practice (retaining his Hahnemannian emeritus status while gone). In 1877 he returned to Hahnemannian Institute in Philadelphia and resumed his position there, becoming lecturer of history and instructions In 1886-87. He was a professor of medical instruction 1887-1890, after which he retired to Vineland, NJ. He lived in Millville, and Ocean Grove, NJ, (1898). He edited American Journal of Homeopathic Materia Medica. He died in California. John Perry

Owen F. Pugh

1867 - 1920 Person Name: O. F. Pugh Arranger of "[I am on a shining pathway]" in Great Tabernacle Hymns

Edna Randolph Worrell

Person Name: Edna R. Worrell Author of "Love, Joy and Peace" in Gospel Hosannas

James McW. Bonnar

Person Name: J. McW. Bonnar Arranger of "[All my doubts I give to Jesus!]" in Songs of Victory

John Charles Fremont Kyger

1860 - 1960 Person Name: John C. F. Kyger Arranger of "[My soul is now united]" in Sacred Chimes

W. E. M. Hackleman

1868 - 1927 Arranger of "[Long years ago a Saviour]" in The Gospel Call William Edward Michael Hackleman USA 1868-1927. Born at Orange, IN, he grew up on a farm. At age 17 he was teaching singing classes and leading singing in meetings. He later taught public school for four years and studied music in Toronto, Canada, at the Conservatory of Music, under Italian composer, Francesco d'Auria, and also with other private teachers in New York City. He married Pearl C MNU, and they had four children: Edwin, Florence, Grace, and Gladys. He edited songbooks, composed music and lead music at state and national conventions of the Christian Church. He was an evangelist and served as president of the National Association of Church Musicians, and for five years was secretary to the Indiana Missionary Society. He led singing at the Centennial Convention in 1909 at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, PA, for an estimated crowd of 30,000. He also ran the Hackleman Music Company in Indianapolis, IN. He published 15 religious songbooks, some lyrics and many tunes. He died in an auto accident in St. Elmo, IL, enroute to a church convention. John Perry

John J. Hood

b. 1847 Person Name: J. J. H. Arranger of "[There is in the house of David]" in Melodies of Salvation Born: 1847, Scotland. Died: After 1929 (he was in the 1930 census). Hood ran a Gospel music publishing business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from as early as 1875 to at least 1913. --www.hymntime.com/tch

Powell G. Fithian

b. 1861 Person Name: P. G. F. Arranger of "[There is pardon with the Saviour]" in Exalted Praise Born: April 30, 1861, Greenwich Township (now Gibbstown), New Jersey. Fithian was music director for the public schools in Camden, New Jersey. He and his wife Julia were both listed in the 1910 and 1920 census, but his wife appears alone in the 1930 census. Powell’s works include: Songs of the Mercy Seat, with George Hugg (Methodist Episcopal Book Room, 1899) Songs for Work and Worship, with Howard Entwisle & Adam Geibel (Dayton, Ohio: Lorenz & Company, 1900) Exalted Praise, with Howard Entwisle (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: MacCalla & Company, 1901) Heavenly Sunlight, with Howard Entwisle & Adam Geibel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: MacCalla & Company, 1902) The Fithian Music Primer (New York: American Book Company, 1915) --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Lady John Scott

1810 - 1900 Author of "Annie Laurie" in Adult Bible Class Hymnal No. 1 Alicia Ann Spottiswoode was the maiden name of Alicia Scott, the wife of Lord John Douglas Scott. She was an amateur composer, best known for the tune, commonly called ANNIE LAURIE, to which the poem by William Douglas beginning "Maxwelton's braes are bonnie" is sung.

Lavinia E. Brauff

1851 - 1920 Author of "Blessed Be the Name of Jesus" in Heart Hymns Lavinia E. Brauff was born in Pittsburgh 12 October, 1851. She was blind from infnacy. She was educated at the School for the Blind in Philadelphia. Her first hymn was published in 1894 to the music of H. P. Danks. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)