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Salomon Sulzer

1804 - 1890 Person Name: S. Sulzer Composer of "[Sh'mah Yisrawayl]" in Union Songster

Margaret E. Winslow

1836 - 1936 Author of "O blessed feet of Jesus, Weary with seeking me" in The Manual of Praise for Sabbath and Social Worship

1774 - 1800 Person Name: Linley Composer of "[Jesus! Jesus! come and save us]" in Songs of the Covenant Born: 1771, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England. Died: September 13, 1800, at his mother’s house in Doncaster. Buried: Doncaster, Yorkshire, England. Blind from birth, Linley studied with Edward Miller, organist at Doncaster Parish Church, and later (being the successful candidate among 17 competitors) became organist of St. James Chapel, Pentonville, London. He married a well-to-do blind lady, and around 1797 they purchased Bland’s music business in Holborn, which was unsuccessful. He was also for some time music agent for John Watlen of Edinburgh. After sustaining great financial losses through the treachery of a friend, and subsequently made a voyage to America (being succeeded by as chapel organist by William Hodsoll), where his performances and compositions brought him some notice. He returned to Doncaster in 1799. Sources: Wilson, p. 296 http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/l/i/n/linley_f.htm

Henry Gideon

Composer of "[How good it is to thank the Lord]" in Union Hymnal, Songs and Prayers for Jewish Worship. 3rd ed. Revised and enlarged.

A. Phelps

1820 - 1890 Person Name: Austin Phelps Editor of "" in The Sabbath School Hymn and Tune Book Phelps, Austin, D.D., born at West Brookfield, Mass., Jan. 7, 1820, was Professor of Sacred Rhetoric at Andover, 1848-1879, and one of the editors of the Sabbath Hymn Book, 1858, d. at Bar Harbour, Maine, Oct. 13, 1890, aged 70. He is the author of "Father! if I may call Thee so" (Eternal Punishment) in the Sabbath Hymn Book, 1858, No. 1289. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

John W. Beebe

1853 - 1938 Person Name: Jno. W. Beebe Author of "Made Whole" in The Bow of Promise John W. Beebe,was born in Milford, Delaware on August 3, 1853. He moved to Indiana in 1873. He moved to Kansas in 1878 but returned to Anderson, Indiana in 1894 where he served as deputy recorder for two years and then as bookkeeper at the First National Bank of Elwood. He was author of Prairie Flowers (G. W. Crane & co., printers, Topeka, Kan. 1891) a book of poetry. He died in Elwood, Indiana June 10, 1938. Dianne Shapiro, from "Indiana Authors and Their Books 1917-1966" by David Eugene Thompson (Crawfordsville, IN Wabash College, 1974) accessed online at http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/inauthors/view?docId=encyclopedia/VAA5365-02.xml;chunk.id=ina-v2-entry-0164;toc.depth=1;toc.id=ina-v2-entry-0164;brand=ia-books;doc.view=0;query=&text1=mary%20hagler&field1=text&hit.rank= 3/14/2020)

T. V. Moore

1818 - 1871 Person Name: Thomas V. Moore Author of "Father, Let Thy Smiling Face" in The Cyber Hymnal Moore, Thomas Vernon, b. at Newville, Penn., Feb. 1,1818, ordained in 1842. He was Moderator of the Presbyterian Assembly in 1867, and d. at Nashville, Ten., Aug. 5, 1871. His hymn, "Father, let Thy smiling face" (Holy Trinity), in The New Psalms & Hymns (Presb.), Richmond, Va., 1901, is dated 1866. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) Obituary from the Richmond Daily Dispatch 7 August 1871 (morning edition), in DNAH Archives.