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Charles Sturtevant

Person Name: Miss C. Sturtevant Hymnal Number: 107 Author of "O, Lord, my weary soul sustain" in Coronation Hymns and Songs

1828 - 1873 Person Name: T. J. Potter Hymnal Number: 64 Author of "Brightly gleams our banner" in Coronation Hymns and Songs Potter, Thomas Joseph, was born at Scarborough in 1827, and joined the Roman Catholic Church in 1847, and subsequently took Holy Orders. For many years he filled the Chair of Pulpit Eloquence and English Literature in the Foreign Missionary College of All Hallows, Dublin. He published The Spoken Word; or, The Art of Extemporary Preaching; Sacred Eloquence, or, The Theory and Practice of Preaching; and The Pastor and his People; together with several tales. He translated the Vesper hymns in the Catholic Psalmist; contributed to the Holy Family Hymns, 1860; and published Legends, Lyrics, and Hymns, 1862. His most widely-known hymn is "Brightly gleams our banner" (q.v.). Several of his hymns and translations are in use in Roman Catholic hymnbooks for Missions and Schools. He died at Dublin in 1873. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================ Potter, T. J., p. 901, ii., was b. June 9, 1828 (not in 1827), ordained 1857, and died Aug. 31, 1873. The hymn:— O! yet, once more, in Britain's isle [For the Conversion of England], in the Arundel Hymns, 1902, is stanzas 30, 31, 34, 35, 36 of a piece inhis Legends, Lyrics and Hymns, 1862. It is entitled "The Definition of the Immaculate Conception: or England and Rome," and marked as “Written several years ago .. to be spoken at the Feast of Languages, which is annually celebrated in the Propaganda College at Rome, on the Festival of the Epiphany, . . . now published for the first time." [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Ella Dudley Cheek

Person Name: Ella Cheek Hymnal Number: 56 Author of "Jesus, I am waiting now" in Coronation Hymns and Songs

Elizabeth C. Kinney

1810 - 1889 Person Name: Mrs. E. C. Kinney Hymnal Number: 8 Author of "Jesus, Saviour, hear our cry!" in Coronation Hymns and Songs Kinney, Elizabeth Clementine, née Dodge, born at New York, Dec. 18, 1810, and married first to E. C. Stedman, and second to W. B. Kinney. Her hymn "Jesus, Saviour, pass not by" (Salvation desired), appeared in the Songs of Christian Praise, N. Y., 1880. Died in 1889. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ===================== Granddaughter of colonial poet Aaron Cleveland, poet and essayist Elizabeth Kinney grew up in New York City. After her short first marriage, which left her widowed with one child at the age of twenty-five, she began to publish her articles and poetry in popular literary magazines such as Graham's, Sartain's, and the Knickerbocker. In 1841 she married publicist and writer William Kinney of New Jersey, and became a regular contributor to the Newark Daily Advisor when he took an editorial position there. In 1850 William Kinney received an assignment in Sardinia, and for four years the Kinneys resided among the literati of Turin. When his post expired, they moved to Florence, where the Anglophone community included writers Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Anthony Trollope. Here Elizabeth Kinney composed her metrical Italian romance Felicità before returning to Newark in 1865. The lively, romantic tones of her writing met with critical and popular success, and Elizabeth Kinney's work continued to appear in periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic. She published a full volume of poetry (Poems) in 1867. http://www.librarycompany.org/women/portraits/

Charles Force Deems

1820 - 1893 Person Name: Charles F. Deems Hymnal Number: 130 Author of "Come, 'tis the hour to bow" in Coronation Hymns and Songs Born: December 4, 1820, Baltimore, Maryland. Died: November 18, 1893, Staten Island, New York. Buried: Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp, New York. Grandson of a Methodist minister, Deems began preaching temperance at the tender age of 13. He studied at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, intending to become a lawyer. Instead, after graduating in 1839, became a Methodist minister in Asbury, New Jersey. The next year, he began working for the American Bible Society of North Carolina, and later became a professor of logic and rhetoric at the University of North Carolina (1842-48). In 1849, he taught natural sciences at Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia for a year, then began pastoring a Methodist congregation in New Berne, North Carolina. Shortly thereafter, he became president of the Women’s College in Greensboro, North Carolina, serving until 1854, when he returned to New Berne. After the American civil war, he moved to New York City, where he edited The Watchman newspaper and founded the Church of Strangers, helped in part by a large grant from Cornelius Vanderbilt. He also influenced Vanderbilt’s decision to contribute a million dollars to the Central University of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (now Vanderbilt University). Deems’ works include: Hymns for All Christians, 1869 (compiled with Phoebe Cary) Scotch Verdict in re Evolution, 1885 --www.hymntime.com/tch

A. B. Emmons

Person Name: Rev. A. B. Emmons Hymnal Number: 4 Author of "Tell me more about Jesus my Saviour" in Coronation Hymns and Songs Late 19th Century We have little data on Emmons, except that he was a minister. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Florence C. Armstrong

1843 - 1890 Person Name: Miss C. Armstrong Hymnal Number: 32 Author of "Oh, to be over yonder!" in Coronation Hymns and Songs Armstrong, Florence Catherine, daughter of William Armstrong, M.D., of Collooney, Co. Sligo, Ireland, born March 18, 1843. Her well-known hymn:— 0 to be over yonder [Longing for Heaven] was written in 1862, and published without her consent in the British Herald, Feb. 1865, p. 24, and dated "Jan., 1865." It soon attained an extended circulation, and was given in several collections. In 1875 Miss Armstrong acknowledged the authorship in her work, The King in His Beauty and Other Poems. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Lucy E. Akerman

1816 - 1874 Person Name: Mrs. Lucy E. Akerman Hymnal Number: 34 Author of "Nothing but leaves! The spirit grieves" in Coronation Hymns and Songs Akerman, Lucy Evelina, née Metcalf. An American Unitarian writer, daughter of Thomas Metcalf, born at Wrentham, Mass., Feb. 21, 1816, married to Charles Akerman, of Portsmouth, N.H, resided at Providence, R.I., and died there Feb. 21,1874. Mrs. Akerman is known as a hymn writer through her:— Nothing but leaves, the Spirit grieves, which was suggested by a sermon by M. D. Conway, and first published in the N. Y. Christian Observer, cir. 1858. In the Scottish Family Treasury, 1859, p. 136, it is given without name or signature, and was thus introduced into Great Britain. In America it is chiefly in use amongst the Baptists. Its popularity in Great Britain arose out of its incorporation by Mr. Sankey, in his Sacred Songs & Solos, No. 34, and his rendering of it in the evangelistic services of Mr. Moody. The air to which it is sung is by an American composer, S. J. Vail. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)