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Mary Stoner Wine

1885 - 1959 Person Name: Mary Stone Wine Hymnal Number: 440 Author of "I believe in you, Lord Jesus" in Hymnal Mary Stoner Wine was a poet and playwright in the Church of the Brethren. She attended Manchester College in Indiana. (Source: Brethren Encyclopedia) Email received 7/12/2018

William Beery

1852 - 1956 Hymnal Number: 601 Composer of "HUNTINGDON" in Hymnal William Beery was born April 8, 1852, near Bremen OH and he lived for nearly 104 years. He attended Juniata College, where he later taught vocal music. He also conducted music institutes and singing classes. Beery was married in 1888 to Adaline Hohf, who often wrote poems that he set to music. In 1910 they moved to Elgin IL where both were employed by the Brethren Publishing House. His music has also been included in several Brethren hymnals. NN, Hymnary editor. Sources: The Brethren Encyclopedia and Frank Ramirez, from http://yellowbrickjourney.blogspot.com/2008/04/william-beery.html

Jacob Kimball

1761 - 1826 Hymnal Number: 361 Composer of "PLAINFIELD" in Hymnal Kimball, Jacob. (Topsfield, Massachusetts, February 15, 1761--July 24, 1826, Topsfield). He graduated from Harvard in 1780, studied law, taught school, and tried to make a living at various other occupations, with small success except in the field of music where he was regarded as an outstanding singer, teacher, and composer of his period. He edited Rural Harmony (Boston, 1793) which he followed with Essex Harmony (1800), and Essex Harmony, Part II (1802), which included the only tunes of his own composition which can now be identified as his, except those in the popular Village Harmony (1795) the later editions of which, down to 1821, were probably edited by him. There is evidence that he also wrote poetry, including a number of hymns, some of them perhaps anonymous ones, otherwise unknown, included in the above-mentioned song books. The one hymn which can be attributed to him with assurance is his excellent metrical version of Psalm 65 which Jeremy Belknap included in his Sacred Psalmody (1795), entitled "A New Version" and beginning "Thy praise, O God, in Zion waits." The only other hymn by an American author in Belknap's collection is Mather Byles' "When wild confusion wrecks the air," republished in 1760. See: Jacob Kimball: A Pioneer American Musician, Essex Institution Historical Collections, XCII, no. 4. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Alexander Mack

1712 - 1803 Person Name: Alexander Mack, Jr. Hymnal Number: 40 Author of "Jesus Christ, God's only Son" in Hymnal Alexander Mack was born in Germany in 1712 the son of Alexander Mack 1679-1735, the founder of the Church of the Brethren in Schwarzenau, Wittgenstein. Due to religious persecution, his early life was spent in West Friesland in the Netherlands. His family came to the United States when he was 17 and settled in Germantown, Pennsylvania. After his father died, Mack, in 1737 joined with Stephen Koch, a member of the church, in retreat for a time of meditation and prayer in a house along the Wissahckon. Mack later joined the Ephrata Society, but left Ephrata around 1746 and returned to the Church of the Brethren and served as minister, elder, and bishop. He wrote hymns as well as prose and also letters to a large number of people. Dianne Shapiro from The Religious Poetry of Alexander Mack, Jr. by Samuel B. Heckman (Elgin, IL: Brethren Publishing House, 1912)

Albert Cassel Wieand

1871 - 1954 Person Name: Albert C. Wieand Hymnal Number: 649 Author of "On the radiant threshold" in Hymnal (Albert Cassel Wieand; A. C. Wieand; b. 1871; co-founder of Bethany Bible School, later known as Bethany Theological Seminary; d. in LaVerne, CA. July 24, 1954