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Charlotte G. Homer

1856 - 1932 Hymnal Number: 23 Author of "Come to the Feast" in Sing Pseudonym. See also Gabriel, Chas. Hutchinson, 1856-1932

1892 - 1950 Hymnal Number: 45 Author of "Love, Wonderful Love" in Sing Seth Sykes and his wife Bessie were traveling evangelists based in Glasgow, Scotland. They traveled around the UK. Seth preached and wrote lyrics to many hymns. They used lantern slide shows to illustrate their message and draw people to their meetings. Dianne Shapiro, from Discerning Music blog, accessed 1/12/17

George D. Moore

1800 - 1900 Person Name: Geo. D. Moore Hymnal Number: 28 Composer of "[My soul in sad exile was out on life's sea]" in Sing He was an itinerant evangelist in NJ & PA in the latter 1800s. He wrote the music to Henry Lake Gilmour’s hymn lyrics of 1885. John Perry

W. Spencer Walton

1850 - 1906 Hymnal Number: 49 Author of "In Tenderness He Sought Me" in Sing

Carrie E. Rounsefell

1861 - 1930 Hymnal Number: 6 Composer of "[It may not be on the mountain's height]" in Sing Carrie Esther Parker Rounsefell USA 1862-1930. Born at Merrimack, NH, she grew up in Manchester, NH. She married William Rounsefell, a bookkeeper. She was known as a singing evangelist throughout New England and New York, where she toured with a small autoharp (zither). She died at Durham, ME. John Perry

Mrs. J. G. Wilson

Hymnal Number: 27 Composer of "[Sing the wondrous love of Jesus]" in Sing See Wilson, Emily D. (Emily Divine), 1865-1942.

James H. Burke

1858 - 1901 Person Name: J. H. Burke Hymnal Number: 53 Composer of "[Oh, how sweet the glorious message]" in Sing James H Burke, 1855-1901, Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1873. In Chicago, he attended the Moody Church and became a member. He taught Sunday school and started singing groups at the YMCA. He engaged in evangelistic work with D. L. Moody, Daniel Whittle, and others, going to Scotland and Britain for crusade work there for a year and a half. He was also music minister at the New York Gospel Tacernacle for a year in 1891. He traveled with Scottish evangelist, John McNeill for or year or so as well. John Perry

Anna W. Waterman

Person Name: Mrs. A. W. W. Hymnal Number: 41 Author of "Yes, I Know!" in Sing

James M. Kirk

1854 - 1945 Person Name: J. M. K. Hymnal Number: 1 Author of "Our Lord's Return to Earth Again" in Sing James McPherson Kirk, 1854-1945 Born: June 18, 1854, Flushing, Ohio. Died: June 10, 1945, Flushing, Ohio. Buried: Flushing, Ohio. Raised a Methodist, Kirk became associated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance (CAMA) in 1887. He organized the CAMA’s Gospel Mission in Flushing, Ohio, in 1907, and as part of the Ohio Quartet, sang at CAMA conventions and gatherings. --www.hymntime.com/tch/ ========================== Kirk, James M. (Flushing, Ohio, 1854--1945). Converted at an early age. Became associated with the C&MA in 1887, was a first subscriber to The Alliance Weekly, and wonderfully healed at the first Cleveland Alliance convention. Spent entire life on a farm but devoted much time to Christian work. A member of a famous singing group, the Ohio Quartet, which for 12 years traveled extensively in convention work. In 1906 organized the Gospel Mission of the C&MA in Flushing. An outstanding figure in the Central District as song leader and in Bible teaching and prayer. Grandfather of Geraldine Southern, well-known mezzo-soprano, music instructor at Nyack, and director of music in Alliance churches. Kirk wrote some 40 songs, many while busy with farm chores. Some favorites: Blessed Quietness He Is Just the Same Today I've Yielded to God --Paul Milburn, DNAH Archives

William Grum

1878 - 1931 Person Name: W. G. Hymnal Number: 40 Author of "Victory Ahead" in Sing Reverend William Grum was born July 14, 1878 in Camden NJ to Benjamin and Caroline "Carrie" Grum. His early years were spent at 215 Market Street, where his father had a confectionary. The family had moved to 544 Vine Street by 1900, Benjamin Grum worked then as a letter carrier, a position he would hold until his retirement in the 1920s. William Grum married in the early 1900s. His wife, the former Lena Purdy, bore him two children, daughters Lena and Beatrice. Benjamin and Carrie Grum. were still living at 544 Vine Street in April of 1930 when the Census was enumerated. Mrs. Grum remained at the address after her husband passed, and was still living there in the fall of 1933. By 1920 William Grum had entered the ministry. He pastored at the Kaighn Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church in Camden, and at the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Gloucester City NJ, where he was stationed when the Census was taken in January of 1920. The family home was at 335 Main Street. When daughter Beatrice Crum graduated from Camden High School in 1923, the family was back in North Camden, living at 547 Vine Street. By 1930 Rev. Grum had been sent to serve at the Woodlynne Methodist Episcopal Church in Woodlynne NJ. The Grum family made their home in April of 1930 at 2220 Woodlynne Avenue, the corner of Woodlynne Avenue and Linden Street, in Woodlynne. Sadly, Reverend Grum died suddenly while visiting his mother at the family home at 544 Vine Street in 1931. A talented musician, singer, and composer of religious music, his best known composition perhaps is the hymn "Victory Ahead", written in 1905. Reverend William Grum also had talent as a painter. He had completed a large painting, "The Old Rugged Cross", which stood 15 feet wide by 18 feet tall, shortly before his death. The painting was presented to the Bible class at the Kemble Methodist Episcopal Church in Woodbury NJ in the spring of 1932. --www.dvrbs.com/People/CamdenPeople