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T. Martin Towne

1835 - 1912 Hymnal Number: 25 Composer of "[Praise the Father and the Spirit]" in New Joy Bells Towne, T. Martin. (Coleraine, Franklin County, Massachusetts, May 31 [sic], 1835-- ). Methodist. Attended Williston's Seminary, East Hampton, Mass. 1855 to Hudson, New York, then Albany. Taught in Ypsilanti, Michigan, then Detroit. Settled in Janesville, Wisconsin. Served in the Civil War. Settled in Chicago; married Belle Kellogg. Keith C. Clark, DNAH Archives

Wilhelm

Hymnal Number: 107 Composer of "[How sweet the name of Jesus sounds]" in New Joy Bells Possibly a name used by William F. Sherwin

Wilbur A. Christy

Person Name: W. A. C. Hymnal Number: 88 Author of "Walk in the Light" in New Joy Bells Wilbur Amos Christy USA 1845-1928. Born in Kinsman, OH, he attended the Normal Music School at Genesco, NY, and dedicated his life to music. He had an outstanding tenor voice and was encouraged to pursue an operetic career. Meeting J. G. Towner, they held conventions and concert tours in PA and NY. He also studied with other music masters, J. G. Webb, George F. Root, and Sir George McFarren. He became director and teacher of the National Normal Institute in Lebanon, OH, where George Root was principal. He was known for his work in glee, chorus, and class music, his convention work, and by his Sabbath school songs. His mission in faith caused him to pursue a career change. Following his friend, Philip P. Bliss, he became a singing evangelist. He was known as a gospel singer and composer of gospel hymns and songs. John Perry

Abbie C. McKeever

Hymnal Number: 118 Author of "Heavenward Ever" in New Joy Bells

Mary E. Kail

1828 - 1890 Hymnal Number: 106 Author of "Lo! The Royal Harvest" in New Joy Bells Mary Elizabeth Harper Kail, Circa 1828-1890 Born: 1827 or 1828, Washington, DC. Died: January 28, 1890, Washington, DC, or Ohio. Daughter of Andrew Harper and Mary McDermott-Roe (daughter of Cornelius McDermott-Roe, a laborer who worked for George Washington). Mary’s father died young, possibly of malaria, while Mary and her sister Virginia were children. Mary and Virginia moved together to Carroll County, Ohio, and in 1843 Mary married Gabriel Kail (1814-88). By 1878, Mary was editor of the Connotton Valley Times in Carroll County. In the late 1880s, Mary was a clerk for the United States Treasury Department; she lost that job in September 1885 due to a change in administration. Her works include: Crown Our Heroes, and Other Poems, 1887 --www.hymntime.com/tch/

J. Fleming

Person Name: Rev. J. Fleming Hymnal Number: 23 Author of "Fight the Good Fight" in New Joy Bells

W. S. B. Mathews

1837 - 1912 Hymnal Number: 46 Author of "Bearing the Cross for Me" in New Joy Bells Born: Circa May 1837, Loudon, New Hampshire. Died: April 1, 1912, Denver, Colorado. Buried: Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Colorado. Mathews was educated in Boston, Massachusetts, and at Highland University in Illinois, and taught music at the Wesleyan Female College in Macon, Georgia. He later moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he played the organ at the Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church (1867-93), edited the Musical Independent (1869-71), was music critic for the Chicago Record Herald and Chicago Tribune (1877-87), and helped found the Groller Club in 1884. In 1891, started the monthly magazine Music. His works include: How to Understand Music (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Theodore Presser Company, 1888) A Hundred Years of Music in America (Chicago, Illinois: G.L. Howe, 1889) A Popular History of the Art of Music (Chicago, Illinois: The "Music" Magazine Publishing Company, 1891) Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of Music (Cincinnati, Ohio: John Church Company, 1896) Music, Its Ideals and Methods (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:: Theodore Presser Company, 1897) The Masters and Their Music (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Theodore Presser Company, 1898) Lyrics-- Bearing the Cross for Me Christ at Bethlehem See the Savior This Way To the Harvest Field Away http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/t/mathews_wsb.htm ========================== http://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-mathews,/ william smythe babcock/