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May Agnew Stephens

1865 - 1935 Arranger of "[The Sea of God's eternal love]" in Hymns of the Christian Life. No. 3 Born: 1865, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Died: March 19, 1935, Nyack, New York. Stephens joined the Salvation Army in New York’s 3 Corps in 1890. She helped edit The War Cry, and worked on the training home staff and in the Candidates Department. Around 1897, she began serving as song leader and pianist at the Gospel Tabernacle with Albert Simpson. Two years later, she helped found the Eighth Avenue Mission, and in 1902 married Harold Stephens (later pastor of the Parkdale Alliance Tabernacle in Toronto, Canada). For the next two and half decades she and her husband were traveling evangelists in America, Canada and Britain. Her works include: Missionary Messages in Song, circa 1910 www.hymntime.com/tch

Mabel West

Translator of "O Christmas Tree" in Carols of Christmas

Ernst Anschütz

1780 - 1861 Person Name: E. G. S. Anschütz Author (vs. 1, 2) of "O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum" in Liederkranz für Sonntags-Schulen und Jugend-Vereine Ernst Gebhard Salomon Anschütz

Michael J. Walker

1932 - 1989 Person Name: Michael Walker (born 1932) Author of "O Jesus Christ, strong Son of God" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.)

Ira O. Hoffman

1867 - 1943 Person Name: Ira Orwig Hoffman Arranger of "[What are the tidings from above]" in Celestial Showers No. 1, a collection of gospel songs used in Rev. I. Toliver's Meetings Born: Circa 1867, Pennsylvania. Died: May 4, 1943, Cleveland, Ohio. Ira’s father was song writer Elisha Hoffman. His middle name was his mother’s maiden name. At age nine, he is said to have written the music for his father’s song "The Little Pilgrim;" as an adult, he was a composer, arranger, and music editor. His works include: Favorite Gospel Songs: A Tune Boo (music editor) (Jersey City, New Jersey: J. N. Davis, 1894) --www.hymntime.com/tch

George D. Watson

1845 - 1924 Author of "Follow Me" in The Cyber Hymnal

Jane Robbins

Author of "Now let our voices gladly ring" in Hymns of the United Church

Paul Gottfried Christaller

1860 - 1950 Translator of "Abio vi, abio vi" in TTT-Himnaro Cigneta Paul Gottfried Christaller, 1850-1860, a German, was a pioneer of Esperanto and a secondary-school teacher ("profesoro en artmetia altlernejo"), according to ADORU.

Frank E. Graeff

1860 - 1919 Person Name: Rev. Frank E. Graeff Author of "Hallelujah! Grace is Free!" in The New Living Hymns (Living Hymns No. 2) Frank E. Graeff was a minister in the Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a prolific writer of hymns, stories, poems and articles. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)