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John W. Peterson

1921 - 2006 Person Name: John W. Peterson, 1921- Topics: The Christian Experience Songs of Guidance and Care; Assurance; Choir; Choruses (refrain); Eternal Destiny Author of "Surely Goodness and Mercy" in Great Hymns of the Faith

Alfred B. Smith

1916 - 2001 Person Name: Alfred B. Smith, 1916- Topics: The Christian Experience Songs of Guidance and Care; Assurance; Choir; Choruses (refrain); Eternal Destiny Author of "Surely Goodness and Mercy" in Great Hymns of the Faith Used pseudonym B. C. Laurelton ---------- In 1930, he began playing on radio broadcasts in Jersey City, New Jersey, on "The Old Fashioned Gospel Hour." After meeting Wendell P. Loveless, Alfred enrolled at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and became a member of the WMBI staff. During service as Minister of Music at The Church of the Open Door in Philadelphia, he taught at The Philadelphia School of the Bible in the fall of 1938. During that year, he wrote "For God So Loved the World" after visiting the ninety-four year-old hymn writer George C. Stebbins. Smith met Billy Graham when they were both students at Wheaton College. During their long collaboration, they founded Singspiration in 1941. After graduating from Wheaton, Smith, Graham, and George Beverly Shea started "Youth for Christ" in Chicago. --Daniel Mahraun (from livinghymns.org)

J. G. Dailey

1854 - 1927 Topics: Choir and Chorus Selections Author of "A Saloonless Nation in 1920" in Worship and Service Born: Circa March 1854, Delaware (was living in New Castle County in 1860). Dailey moved to Brockwayville, Pennsylvania, with his mother in 1872, and was still there as of 1892. In 1900 he was in Fredonia Village, New York, and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1910 & 1920. His works include: A Collection of Gospel, Temperance, and Prohibition Songs, What’s the News (Brockwayville, Pennsylvania: 1888) Love (Brockwayville, Pennsylvania: 1892) Prohibition Chimes for Temperance, Prohibition and All Reform Meetings (New York: Dailey & Mead, 1900) --www.hymntime.com/tch/ Additional information and photos can be found here: James Gerald Dailey II (1854-1927) and Fear Not, Little Flock.

Solon Wilder

1830 - 1874 Person Name: S. Wilder Topics: Chorus Choir Selections Composer of "[From ev'ry stormy wind that blows]" in Victory Songs

Otis Skillings

1935 - 2004 Topics: Choir Responses; Choruses; Worship and Adoration Author of "Lord, We Praise You" in Hymns for the Family of God A widely respected musician, arranger, composer, orchestra conductor, concert pianist, workshop clinician, and lecturer, his music has been featured at the world conventions of many denominations and his songs appear in many leading hymnals. --Daniel Mahraun (from lillenas.com)

Charles H. Webb

b. 1933 Topics: The Glory of the Triune God Praise and Thanksgiving; Adoration and Praise; Children's Choir Selections; Choruses and Refrains; Responses, Antiphonal Transcriber of "HELELUYAN" in The United Methodist Hymnal

George H. Carr

Person Name: G. H. C. Topics: Choir and Chorus Selections Author of "The Old Book and the Old Faith" in Worship and Service 20th Century

M. Victor Staley

b. 1866 Person Name: Dr. Victor M. Staley Topics: Choir and Chorus Selections Author of "Some Day" in Worship and Service Staley, M. Victor. (near Omro, Wisconsin, 1866--?). Studied at Lawrence University, 1887-1892; University of Wisconsin (Madison), B.A., 1893; Yale University, Ph.D., ca.1895; admitted to bar, 1900. Practiced, Portland, Oregon. Teacher of Latin and Greek, Palo Alto, California; University of Washington, Seattle; Orchard Lake Military Academy and Louisiana State Normal School. See: Gabriel, Charles H. (1916). Singers and Their Songs. Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company. --Keith C. Clark, DNAH Archives

Richard J. Oliver

Person Name: R. J. O. Topics: Choir and Choruses Author (1st verse and chorus) of "'Tis Jesus" in Tabernacle Hymns

H. R. Christie

1848 - 1925 Topics: Choir and Chorus Selections Composer of "[Lo! the morn eternal breaks]" in Worship and Service Harvey Robert Christie, 1848-1925 Born: June 29, 1848, Monroe County, West Virginia. Died: March 19, 1925, Willowton, West Virginia. Buried: Rest Haven Memorial Park, Princeton, West Virginia. Christie taught singing classes from 1871 to 1874, which led him to a musical career. He studied under Rigdon McIntosh, who at the time was in the music department at Vanderbilt University. Christie remained in Tennessee until 1876, when he returned to West Virginia. Around 1877, he conducted a two month course at the Concord Normal School, in Athens, West Virginia, followed by a similar course in Princeton, West Virginia; Rural Retreat, Virginia (1878); and four courses in Snowville, Virginia (1879-1880); and a nine month course at Rural Retreat, Virginia (1881). In 1881, he studied for a while at the Commercial College at Kentucky University, and in 1882, moved to Milligan College, Tennessee, where he eventually rose to serve on the Board of Directors. In 1894, Christie became music editor for the Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. His works include: Favorite Songs (co-editor), 1876 Gospel Light, 1894 Songs of Service (music editor) (Atlanta, Georgia: R. M. McIntosh Co., 1896) The Christian Church Hymnal, 1906 Songs of Evangelism, 1911 Worship and Service (Cincinnati, Ohio: The Standard Publishing Company, 1916) Music: Let Him Come In --http://www.hymntime.com

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