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Sue M. O. Hoffman

1844 - 1876 Person Name: Mrs. Sue M. O. Hoffman Hymnal Number: 288 Composer of "[God is coming! God is coming! shout aloud the glad refrain]" in Quartette Susan’s husband was song writer Elisha Hoffman. Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania, is named after her family. Lyrics God Is Coming Music: SAN JOSE --www.hymntime.com/tch ================= Sister of Aaron W. Orwig.

W. E. Penn

1832 - 1895 Person Name: Rev. W. E. Penn Hymnal Number: 84 Author of "Resting By and By" in Quartette Penn, William Evander. (Near village of Old Jefferson, Rutherford County, Tennessee, August 11, 1832--April 29, 1895, Eureka Springs, Arkansas). Southern Baptist. Evangelist in Texas and other states, 1875-1895. Compiled three hymnals titled Harvest Bells (1881, 1884, 1887) for use in his meetings. His hymns were primarily revivalistic in emphasis. His finest hymn, "There is a rock in a weary land, Its shadow falls on the burning sand" was paid the compliment of being reworked and issued under the name of Edward Husband in D.B. Towner's Revival Hymns (Chicago, 1905). He and his wife Corilla Frances Sayle adopted three children. Ordained December 4, 1880. --David W. Music, and additional information from the DNAH Archives See: Linder, Michael. (1985). William Evander Penn : his contribution to church music (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas. The Life and Labors of Major W. E. Penn. (1896). St. Louis: C. B. Woodward Printing).

J. M. Kieffer

Hymnal Number: 380 Composer of "[Far away in the land of the pure and bright]" in Quartette Kieffer’s works include: The Pearl; A Collection of Songs, Hymns, Chants, Anthems and Concert Pieces, for the Sabbath School (Cleveland, Ohio: S. Brainard & Sons, 1871) The Welcome; a Collection of Songs, Hymns, Chants, Anthems and Choruses, for the Sabbath School and Home Circle (Cleveland, Ohio: S. Brainard’s Sons, 1878) Lyrics-- Nearer Home Shining Ones of the Better Land, The What Must It Be to Be There! --www.hymntime.com/tch

Kate Osborn

Hymnal Number: 113 Author of "Take My Hand, Dear Jesus" in Quartette

John J. Hood

b. 1847 Hymnal Number: 53 Author of "Cast Thy Bread Upon the Waters" in Quartette 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

Mary Lee Demarest

1838 - 1887 Person Name: Miss M. A. Lee Hymnal Number: 282 Author of "My Ain Countrie" in Quartette Demarest, Mary, née Lee, b. at Corton Falls, New York, in 1838, married to Mr. Demarest, and died at Pasadena, California, in 1887. The story of her poem, "I am far frae my hame," which is given as a Sacred Song by I. D. Sankey in his Sacred Songs & Solos, was written in 1861, and printed in The New York Observer. Its history, too long for quotation here, is given in Mr. Sankey's My Life and Sacred Songs, 1906, pp. 161-2. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)