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Edith Lovell Thomas

1878 - 1970 Author of "In Closing" in A First Book in Hymns and Worship

George Bennett

Person Name: Geo. Bennett Author of "Lord of the Nations" in Gospel Songs No. 2

Juan Marrón

Person Name: Juan Marron Author of "Load al Padre" in Himnario Adventista Pseudonym. See Brown, Walton John

Flossette Du Pasquier

Translator of "Dieu Tout-Puissant, Mes Chants" in Les Chants du Pèlerin

1876 - 1931 Author of "Lord, I Would Praise Thee" in Elmhurst Hymnal Julius Ewald Kockritz, 1876-1931 Born: January 3, 1876, Napoleonville, Louisiana. Died: March 28, 1931. Buried: Fernwood Cemetery, Henderson, Kentucky. Son of Herman and Emma Winkler Kockritz, Ewald was one of 10 children. He grew up in Henderson, Kentucky, and as a young man, worked for a grain company, and as a journalist and telegraph operator. At age 16, he became private secretary to Governor John Young of Kentucky, a post he held three years. He then attended Eden Theological Seminary (graduated 1901), and Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio (graduated 1908). Kockritz served pastorates in Clarington, Ohio (1901-05); St. Luke’s, Cincinnati (1905-10); Salem, New Orleans (1910-17); and Bethel, Evansville (1917-31). He became a leader in the Lutheran Evangelical Synod of North America: He edited several of the denomination’s Sunday school publications (1907-15), served on the Sunday School Board, and on the Board of Religious Education (1913-29, chairman for eight years). He also served on the War Welfare Commission in World War I, was his denomination’s moderator in 1929, and was the synod’s general secretary the last years of his life. --www.hymntime.com/tch

August Johann Berens

1843 - 1908 Person Name: A. Berens, P. Author of "Du unerschöpfter Brunnquell alles Guten" in Liederkranz für Sonntags-Schulen und Jugend-Vereine Berens, August. (Hamburg, Germany, October 30, 1843--January 12, 1908, Niles Center, Illinois). He attended the Missionhaus at Barmen, Germany, ca. 1859-1862, and then did post-graduate study at Tübingen, ca. 1862-1863. Coming to the United States, he was a missionary pastor for the Evangelical Synod of North America on the western frontier, especially in Wisconsin and Minnesota. He was pastor in Washington, Missouri, 1878-1887, and of St. Peter's Church, Elmhurst, Illinois, 1887-1906. He was the author of Frülingsboten: Gedichte (St. Charles, Illinois, 1889) and Frisch und fromm: Ein Kinderbüchlein mit Gedichten, Liedern, und Sprüchen (St. Louis, n.d.). He became a U.S. citizen in June, 1892. Berens married a school teacher, Clara Rieger, in 1878, and had three children. She was the author of Frau Nicholas Magd: eine Erzählung (St. Louis, 1894), and Aus vergangen Tagen (St. Louis, 1906). --Paul Westermeyer, DNAH Archives

María I. Mateo de Gómez

b. 1947 Person Name: María I. Mateo de Gómez (1947- ) Vers. esp. of "Load al Padre" in Himnario Adventista del Séptimo Día

Margaret Morrison

? - 1954 Person Name: M. M. Author of "Love one another, word of revelation" in Christian Science Hymnal (Rev. and enl.) Morrison, Margaret. (?--May 1, 1954, Pigeon Cove, Massachusetts). Born and educated in Canada. She had an early career as a Shakespearean actress. She was a Christian Scientist lecturer and practitioner from 1913 until her death. --Joan E. Wilson, DNAH Archives

Perry Epler Gresham

1907 - 2007 Author of "Father Almighty, Ever Creating" in Eleven Ecumenical Hymns Gresham, Perry Epler. (Covina, California, December 19, 1907--?). President of Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia. Received B.A. from Texas Christian University in 1930. Ordained to the ministry of the Christian Church in 1931; served the Central Woodward Christian Church in Detroit, Michigan. --The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives ======================== Perry Epler Gresham is President of Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia. Born in Covina, Cal., December 19, 1907, he received his B.A. from Texas Christian University in 1930. Ordained to the ministry of the Christian Church in 1931, he served important pastorates in that communion including the Central Woodward Christian Church of Detroit, Mich. He has been actively associated with ecumenical organizations and movements including the National Preaching Mission, the National Council of Churches, the ecumenical conferences at Amsterdam, Thun, Clarens and Lund. --Eleven Ecumenical Hymns, 1954. Used by permission.