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Annie Rebekah Smith

1828 - 1855 Person Name: Annie R. Smith Hymnal Number: 9 Author of "I Ask Not, Lord, For Less to Bear" in Songs for Service

1784 - 1859 Hymnal Number: 73 Composer of "[I heard the voice of Jesus say]" in Songs for Service Also: Spohr, Ludwig, 1784-1859 Shpor, Lui, 1784-1859 Spohr, L. (Louis), 1784-1859 Shpor, Ludvig, 1784-1859 Spohr, Ludewig, 1784-1859

George D. Moore

1800 - 1900 Person Name: Geo. D. Moore Hymnal Number: 44 Composer of "[My soul in sad exile was out on life's sea]" in Songs for Service He was an itinerant evangelist in NJ & PA in the latter 1800s. He wrote the music to Henry Lake Gilmour’s hymn lyrics of 1885. John Perry

B. R. Hanby

1833 - 1867 Hymnal Number: 32 Composer of "[O my hope is growing brighter]" in Songs for Service Benjamin Russell Hanby was born July 22, 1833, the oldest of eight children, to Bishop William Hanby in Rushville, OH. The family moved to Westerville,OH where Bishop Hanby was a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. In his short life Benjamin graduated from Otterbein, taught school, became a United Brethren minister, started a singing school, was editor for John Church publishers in Cincinnati and composed many songs and hymns before he died of tuberculosis March 15, 1867. His home in Westerville was Ohio's first memorial to a composer. It was a stop on the Underground Railroad for slaves escaping to Canada and is a national historic site, a Methodist church Landmark and a Network to Freedom site for the National Park Service. There is a Hanby Residence Hall at Otterbein University. Best known for "Up on the housetop" and "Darling Nellie Gray," Hanby published many hymns including "Little Eyes" and "Who is He? Mary Louise VanDyke

Friedrich Schneider

1786 - 1853 Person Name: F. Schneider Hymnal Number: 195 Composer of "[Welcome, delightful morn]" in Songs for Service

Henrietta E. Blair

Person Name: H. E. Blair Hymnal Number: 80 Author of "Meet Me There" in Songs for Service Pseudonym. See also Crosby, Fanny, 1820-1915

Charles P. Whitford

Person Name: C. P. Whitford Hymnal Number: 12 Arranger of "No Name so Sweet as Jesus" in Songs for Service

Josiah Hopkins

1786 - 1862 Person Name: Josiah Hopkins Hymnal Number: 123 Composer of "[Delay not, delay not]" in Songs for Service Hopkins, Josiah , D.D., was born at Pittsford, Vermont, April 13, 1786. From 1809 to 1830 he was pastor of a Congregational Church, at New Haven, Vermont; and from 1830 to 1848 of the First Presbyterian Church, Auburn, New York. He died at Geneva, New York, July 27, 1862. He was the editor of Conference Hymns , Auburn, 1846, and contributed hymns to the Christian Lyre , N. Y., 1830. From the latter work his hymns in common use are taken:— 1. 0 turn ye, 0 turn ye, for why will ye die. Expostulation. 2. Why sleep we, my brethren. Expostulation. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

William A. Williams

1854 - 1938 Person Name: W. A. Williams Hymnal Number: 16 Composer of "[I entered once a home of care]" in Songs for Service

Ada Blenkhorn

1858 - 1927 Hymnal Number: 82 Author of "Over There" in Songs for Service Ada Jane Blenkhorn Canada 1858-1927 Born in Cobourg, Ontario, the 10th of 11 children, she emigrated with her family to the U.S. In 1884 and settled in Cleveland, OH.. She was raised a Methodist, and began writing hymn lyrics at age 34. A prolific writer of hymn lyrics, she was about to give it up when a friend encouraged her to continue, telling her some soul might be saved by a hymn she would write. She worked for many years as secretary to her brother, Henry's, real estate company. After his death in 1923, she became president of the company. She never married. John Perry