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Robert P. Kerr

1850 - 1923 Person Name: Rev. Robert Kerr Hymnal Number: 6 Author of "The Peerless Name" in Always Welcome Born: 1850, Greensboro, Alabama. Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery , Nashville, Tennessee. Kerr, Robert P., D.D., b. at Greensborough, Alabama, graduated at Union Theological Seminary, Va., 1873, and was ordained by the Presbytery of Lafayette, 1874. His Hymns of the Ages, a collection on conservative Evangelical lines which hardly justified its title, was published in N.Y., 1891. In it appeared his hymn,"Blessed country, home of Jesus," 1891, A later hymn, "Galilean King and Prophet," is dated 1901. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

James L. Orr

Person Name: J. L. Orr Hymnal Number: 77 Author of "Hosanna to Jesus" in Always Welcome

Arthur W. French

Hymnal Number: 27 Author of "Flash the Toplights" in Always Welcome 19th Century

Mrs. C. L. Shacklock

Hymnal Number: 25 Author of "The Gate of Prayer" in Always Welcome

Mary E. Kail

1828 - 1890 Person Name: Mrs. Mary E. Kail Hymnal Number: 7 Author of "Ring, Joy-Bells, Ring!" in Always Welcome Mary Elizabeth Harper Kail, Circa 1828-1890 Born: 1827 or 1828, Washington, DC. Died: January 28, 1890, Washington, DC, or Ohio. Daughter of Andrew Harper and Mary McDermott-Roe (daughter of Cornelius McDermott-Roe, a laborer who worked for George Washington). Mary’s father died young, possibly of malaria, while Mary and her sister Virginia were children. Mary and Virginia moved together to Carroll County, Ohio, and in 1843 Mary married Gabriel Kail (1814-88). By 1878, Mary was editor of the Connotton Valley Times in Carroll County. In the late 1880s, Mary was a clerk for the United States Treasury Department; she lost that job in September 1885 due to a change in administration. Her works include: Crown Our Heroes, and Other Poems, 1887 --www.hymntime.com/tch/