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Emily Sullivan Oakey

1829 - 1883 Person Name: Mrs. Emily S. Oakey Hymnal Number: 244 Author of "What Shall the Harvest Be?" in The Songs of Zion A graduate of Albany Female Academy in New York. Taught rhetoric, composition, and foreign languages there for 24 (or 25) years. Contributed to at least 11 magazines. Published a book of poetry, At the Foot of Parnassus.. Wrote the hymn, “Sowing the Seed” in 1850. Originally published in “a western paper,” altered as it traveled from hand to hand. Popularized by Ira Sankey. Published in Gospel Hymns and Songs. Frequently requested from Edison Records, and recorded by them in 1904. According to Sankey, she was “a frail, delicate woman, always an invalid,mnever having known, as she once said, an hour of health in all her life.” E. Adams Sources: Sankey, Ira D. My Life and Sacred Songs (1906), 138-143, 281-284. Moore, Wendell. The Edison Phonograph Monthly (Mar 1904- Feb 1905), 8. Library of Congress. Catalog of Copyright Entries Part 3: Musical Compositions, Vol. 16, Part 2, Nos. 8-13 (Washington, D.C.: 1921), 1512. Oakey, Emily S. At the Foot of Parnassus (Albany: 1883), 45-46. Abbott , Edward and Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell. The Literary World: A Monthly Review of Current Literature, Vol. X (Boston: 1879), 63. Munsell, J. Circular and Catalogue of the Albany Female Academy (1870), 2. Exercises of the Alumnae of the Albany Female Academy (1880), 12-14. Historical Sketch of the Albany Female Academy (1884), 19. Butterworth, Hezekiah and Theron Brown. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes (New York: 1906) 435-436. Archive.org.

William W. Phelps

1792 - 1872 Person Name: W. W. Phelps Hymnal Number: 133 Author of "Redeemer of Israel" in The Songs of Zion

S. M. I. Henry

1839 - 1900 Hymnal Number: 232 Author of "My Father Knows" in The Songs of Zion HENRY, Mrs. Sarepta M. I., evangelist, temperance reformer, poet and author, born in Albion, Pa., 4th November, 1839. her father Rev. H. Nelson Irish, was a Methodist clergyman of the old style. He was preaching in Albion at the time of the daughter's birth. In 1841 he was sent to Illinois as a missionary, where he did heroic pioneer work and where he ended his days. In 1859 Miss Irish entered the Rock River Seminary, in Mt. Morris, Ill., when she had for her pastor Rev. J. H. Vincent, then just coming into his life work. Recognition had been given to her literary ability, and during her school days she won many honors in composition. On 7th March, 1861, Miss Irish became the wife of James W. Henry, of East Homer, N. Y. The Civil War broke in upon the plans of the young couple and left Mrs. Henry, in 1871, a soldier's widow. The trio of children born from this union are just such as would be expected from so true a marriage. Mary, an alumna of the Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., is already a writer of acknowledged ability in both prose and verse, and at the national convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in New York, in 1888, she was elected to the position of superintendent of the press department. Alfred, the oldest son, is a faithful and eloquent clergyman, and Arthur is an author. Mrs. Henry was among the first to join the crusade against rum. From the beginning of the organization of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union she has been associated with the national body as superintendent of evangelical work and as evangelist. The result of her seven years of service in gospel temperance in Rockford, Ill., would alone suffice to crown the labors of any ordinary life-time. A partial record of this work is found in her book "Pledge and Cross." Her published books number fourteen, of which two, "Victoria," written during the first year of her daughter's life, and "Marble Cross," are poems. The prose works are "After the! Truth," in four volumes, "Pledge and Cross," "Voice of the Home and Its Legend," "Mabel's Work," "One More Chance," "Beforehand," "Afterward," "Unanswered Prayer," and "Frances Raymond's Investment." Mrs. Henry has long occupied pulpits among all denominations throughout the land. Through her evangelistic work saloons have been closed, churches built and hundreds converted. Her home is now in Evanston, Illinois. American Women: fifteen hundred biographies, with over 1,400 photos: a comprehensive encyclopedia of the lives and achievements of American women during the nineteenth century (Rev. ed.) by Frances E. Willard an Mary A Livermore (New York/Chicago/Springfield, OH: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1897

F. G. Burroughs

1856 - 1949 Person Name: Mrs. Ophelia G. Adams Hymnal Number: 234 Author of "Sometime, Somewhere" in The Songs of Zion F. G. Burroughs was born in 1856 (nee Ophelia G. Browning) was the daughter of William Garretson Browning, a Methodist Episcopal minister, and Susan Rebecca Webb Browning. She married Thomas E. Burroughs in 1884. He died in 1904. She married Arthur Prince Adams, in 1905. He was a minister. Her poem, "Unanswered yet" which was written in 1879, was published in the The Christian Standard in 1880 with the name F. G. Browning. She also wrote under the name of Ophelia G. Adams and Mrs. T. E. Burroughs. Dianne Shapiro from The Literary Digest, July 29, 1899., The Register, Pine Plains, NY, October 24, 1884, Alumni Record of Wesleyan University, Middleton, Conn. 1921

Eliza R. Snow

1804 - 1887 Person Name: E. R. Snow Hymnal Number: 83 Author of "O My Father" in The Songs of Zion

John Howard Payne

1791 - 1852 Hymnal Number: 91 Author of "Home, Sweet Home" in The Songs of Zion Payne, John Howard. (New York, N.Y., April 1, 1791--April 1, 1852, Tunis). American actor, playwright, and diplomat. After a successful career in America, London, and Paris he was appointed American consul in Tunis in 1841. He adapted many plays, wrote a few original ones, and edited several short-lived magazines. There are several biographies. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives

Kirkham

Hymnal Number: 87 Author of "How Firm a Foundation" in The Songs of Zion

C. E. Leslie

Person Name: C. E. L. Hymnal Number: 123 Author of "Jesus, My Savior" in The Songs of Zion

Bernard Snow

1822 - 1894 Person Name: B. Snow Hymnal Number: 216 Author of "Our God, We Raise to Thee" in The Songs of Zion

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1712 - 1778 Person Name: Jean Jacques Rousseau Hymnal Number: 97 Composer of "[Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing]" in The Songs of Zion Jean Jacques Rousseau; b. 1712, Geneva; d. 1778, Paris. Born in the city-state of Geneva in the Swiss Confederacy, his mother died whenhe was 9 days old. Rousseau's father was a watchmaker, but got into trouble with local officials and left the town, leaving his son with an uncle who had Rousseau and his own son board with a Calvinist minister for 2 years. He was later apprenticed to a notary and then to an engraver, who beat him. He ran away from Geneva at 16. In nearby Savoy, he sheltered with a Roman Catholic priest. He was sent to Italy to convert to Catholicism. He supported himself as a servant, secretary, and tutor. His life was filled with personal and political upheaval, and his writings infuriated many, to the point he had to leave several habitations. He had many friends and enemies due to his philosophies on life, religion, and God. He was concerned with decay of society (having experienced the French Revolution) and became a philosopher, writer, botanist, and composer, he influenced the Enlightenment period through his political philosophy, both in France and across Europe, including aspects of the French Revolution and overall development of modern political and educational thought. A member of the Jacobin Club, he was the most popular of philosophers. He believed that self-preservation was the highest virtue and that we should study to understand how society operates and where pitfalls lie. His personal family life was very chaotic as a result of his outspoken opinions and writings. He returned to his Calvinistic beliefs in later life, but digressed from them on several issues important to that church. John Perry