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Joseph H. Martin

Person Name: Rev. J. H. Martin Hymnal Number: 114 Author of "Spurn Me Not" in Light and Life Late 19th Century. Martin was a minister. http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/r/t/martin_jh.htm

Aldine S. Kieffer

1840 - 1904 Person Name: A. S. Kieffer Hymnal Number: 20 Composer of "[There's a light on the dark and surging deep]" in Light and Life Full name Aldine Silliman Kiefer

1849 - 1889 Person Name: Mrs. E. W. Chapman Hymnal Number: 64 Author of "Draw me closer to thee" in Light and Life Anzentia Igene (Angie) Perry Chapman, 1849-1889. Born near Lansing, MI, Angie was the wife of Free Methodist minister, Edwin W. Chapman. They had three children. She helped on his evangelism tours and rural preaching circuits. They worked in Sparta, MI, and helped found the first Free Methodist church in Grand Rapids, MI. She also wrote hymn lyrics. In 1888 they followed an evangelistic tour of Kansas, and them moved to Isabella County, MI. She died in Mt. Pleasant, MI. John Perry

Charles Hutchinson Gabriel, Jr.

1892 - 1934 Person Name: Chas. H. Gabriel Hymnal Number: 28 Composer of "Marching, marching on" in Light and Life Born: March 2, 1892, San Francisco, California. Pseudonym: Jean Howard. Gabriel was living with his parents in Cook County, Illinois, in 1910. He was still there in 1920 with his wife Ethel. In 1926, he was musical director and announcer for radio station KLX in Oakland, California. By 1930, he and his wife were in Los Angeles County, California. The January 30, 1926 issue of Colliers magazine said of him: "Gabe" has experienced all those changes which the Fates deem necessary to broaden one’s views. He has taught music in the Indianapolis [Indiana] and Northwestern Conservatories; edited mechanical and automobile magazines; traveled with Billy Sunday; been a newspaper reporter; rewrite man; music editor and book reviewer. In his spare time he has managed to produce eight hundred compositions which have been printed. He first became interested in radio when he was appointed director of WGN in Chicago [Illinois]. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

E. A. Barnes

1842 - 1942 Hymnal Number: 17 Author of "Oh! 'tis wonderful" in Light and Life Edward Albert Barnes, born January 24 1842. He was a life long resident of Chicago and a prolifich hymn writer, and active in the American Temperance Movement. Dianne Shapiro, from http://mms.newberry.org/html/BarnesE.html

David Sullins

Person Name: Rev. D. Sullins, D. D. Hymnal Number: 130 Composer (melody) of "[There's a wail from the islands of the sea]" in Light and Life

W. G. Irvin

Hymnal Number: 70 Author of "Only waiting" in Light and Life

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Edward Roberts

Person Name: E. Roberts, by per Hymnal Number: 44 Composer of "[There are lights by the shore of that country]" in Light and Life

J. W. Bischoff

1850 - 1909 Hymnal Number: 94 Composer of "[O prodigal, don't stay away!]" in Light and Life John W. Bischoff was born in 1849, became blind at the age of two years, came to the Congregational Church as organist and choir-director at the age of twenty-five, and remained thirty-five years up to the date of his death on Memorial Day, May 30, 1909. He was a prolific composer, most of his work being of the lyric style. In his first book, Crystal Songs, compiled in 1877 with the assistance of Otis F. Presbrey, there are thirty-two tunes of his compoistion. During many years of his service he provided music loves with a series of monthly concerts, at which a high grade of music was rendered. American writers and compilers of sacred music by Frank J. Metcalf (New York; Cincinnati: Abingdon Press, 1925)