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Alfred A. Graley

1813 - 1905 Person Name: Alfred Arthur Graley Hymnal Number: d39 Author of "I long to be there" in Heavenly Voices

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Publisher of "" in Heavenly Voices

H. M. Bryon

Hymnal Number: d50 Author of "Shine on, fair star" in Heavenly Voices

Lottie E. Welton

Person Name: L. E. Welton Hymnal Number: d11 Author of "Father, I come to thee, Nearer" in Heavenly Voices

Mrs. C. Nysewander

Person Name: C. Nysewander Hymnal Number: d41 Author of "Gathering in for" in Heavenly Voices

Joel Swartz

1827 - 1914 Hymnal Number: d30 Author of "How tender its tone" in Heavenly Voices Lutheran pastor and poet. Born in 1827 in Shenandoah County, Virginia. Was a pastor in Baltimore and Pennsylvania

Benjamin F. Nysewander

Person Name: B. F. Nysewander Hymnal Number: d70 Author of "When we get home O how" in Heavenly Voices

1812 - 1897 Person Name: Catherine Harbison Waterman Esling Hymnal Number: d7 Author of "Come unto me [him], when shadows darkly gather" in Heavenly Voices Esling, Catherine H., née Watterman, was born in 1812, and married in 1840 to George J. Esling, of Philadelphia. Her poems were collected and published in 1850 as The Broken Bracelet, and other Poems. She is widely known as the author of "Come unto Me, when shadows darkly gather" (Invitation), which appeared in the Christian Keepsake annual, 1839, in 9 stanzas of 4 lines. It is usually given in an abbreviated form. Mrs. Esling is a member of the American Protestant Episcopal Church. (Nutter, 1884, p. 253.) --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Martha A. W. Cook

1806 - 1874 Hymnal Number: d26 Author of "In some way or other, the Lord will provide" in Heavenly Voices Martha Elizabeth Duncan Walker Cook USA 1806-1874. Born in Northcumberland County, PA, she married Rev. Parsons Cook, editor of a Boston paper called “The Puritan Recorder”. She contributed to, and for a time, was editor of the “Continental Monthly”. She translated “The life of Chopin”, by Franz Liszt, from the French in 1863. She also translated “Undivine comedy” by Zygmund Krasinski in 1875. She died in Hoboken, NJ. John Perry