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Willie P. Roe

Hymnal Number: d9 Author of "Now to the Savior, pleading heart and hand" in Songs of Triumph [with Supplement]

Annie M. Stockton

Hymnal Number: a32 Author of "Child, Your Father Calls" in Songs of Triumph [with Supplement]

John Swanel Inskip

Editor of "" in Songs of Triumph [with Supplement]

Etta Cloud

Hymnal Number: a84 Author of "O, the mercy so amazing" in Songs of Triumph [with Supplement] Late 19th Century

1840 - 1920 Person Name: Henry B. Hartzler Hymnal Number: a82 Author of "Resting on his mighty arm forever" in Songs of Triumph [with Supplement] Hartzler, Henry Burns. (York County, Pennsylvania, March 23, 1840--1920). Evangelical. Licensed 1869, pastor Trinity Church, York Penn., in 1873-1874; editor of The Messenger in 1870s and 1880s; taught Bible in Mt. Hermon school, Northfield, Massachusetts. Was associated with D.L. Moody. Went with the United Evangelical CHurch in the schism, was editor of its Evangel 1894-1902. Editor of and hymn-contributor to Evangelischer Gesangbuch and Hymn Book of the United Evangelical Church. Bishop of that denomination 1902-1910. Most famous hymn was "Go and seek the lost and dying." --Ellen Jane Lorenz, DNAH Archives

Lizzie Edwards

Person Name: Lizzie Edward Hymnal Number: a5 Author of "He Is My Portion Forever" in Songs of Triumph [with Supplement] Pseudonym. See also Crosby, Fanny, 1820-1915

Edwin H. Nevin

1814 - 1889 Person Name: Rev. Edwin H. Nevin, D.D. Hymnal Number: a66 Author of "Let me ever cling to Thee" in Songs of Triumph [with Supplement] Nevin, Edwin Henry, D.D., son of Major David Nevin, was born at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, May 9, 1814. He graduated in Arts at Jefferson College, 1833; and in Theology at Princeton Seminary, in 1836. He held several pastorates as a Presbyterian Minister from 1836 to 1857; then as a Congregational Minister from 1857 to 1868; and then, after a rest of six years through ill health, as a Minister of the Reformed Church, first at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and then in Philadelphia. Dr. Nevin is the author of several hymns, the more important of which are:— 1. Always with me [us], always with [us] me. Jesus always present. 2. Come up hither, come away. Invitation Heavenward. 3. Happy, Saviour, would I be. Trust. This is given in the Lyra Sacra Americana as "Saviour! happy should I be." This change was made by the editor "with the consent and approbation of the author." 4. 0 heaven, sweet heaven. Heaven. Written and published in 1862 after the death of a beloved son, which made heaven nearer and dearer from the conviction that now a member of his family was one of its inhabitants" (Schaff’s Christ in Song, 1870, p. 539). 5. Live on the field of battle. Duty. Appeared in the Baptist Devotional Hymn Book, 1864. 6. I have read of a world of beauty. Heaven. 7. Mount up on high! as if on eagle's wings. Divine Aspirations. Of these hymns, Nos. 1, 2, 3 appeared in Nason's Congregational Hymn Book, 1857; and all, except No. 5, are in the Lyra Sacra Americana, 1868. [Rev. F.M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

F. B. Harris

1850 - 1909 Person Name: Flora L. Best Hymnal Number: a20 Author of "O, the new, new song!" in Songs of Triumph [with Supplement] Birth: 1850, USA Death: Sep., 1909 Flora Lydia (Best) Harris was the daughter of Dr. David and Elizabeth (Lockart) Best. She was the 1st wife of Rev. Bishop Merriman Colbert Harris. He was a minister in the Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was a writer and wrote on Japanese themes. In 1891 she translated the 10th century classic 'Tosa Niki' ('Diary or Log of a Journey From Tosa to Kyoto'). Mary Jane Haight-Eckert on Find A Grave web site

Frank Gould

Hymnal Number: a60 Author of "Where the verdure of spring is immortal" in Songs of Triumph [with Supplement] Pseudonym. See also Crosby, Fanny, 1829-1915

William Johnson

b. 1906 Person Name: W. J. Hymnal Number: a22 Author of "Let me touch the hem of His garment" in Songs of Triumph [with Supplement] William Johnson was born in 1906 on a farm near Center City, Minnesota. He published two collections of poetry: Wild Flowers (1948) and Bill’s Poems (1969). --The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993