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George Barrell Cheever
1807 - 1890 Person Name: George Barrell Cheever, 1845 Hymnal Number: 284 Author of "Thy loving-kindness, Lord, I sing" in Faith Hymns (New ed.) Cheever, George Barrell, D.D., eminent in reform, philanthropy, and literature, born at Hallowell, Maine, April 17, 1807, and graduated at Bowdoin College, 1825. Dr. Cheever was a Congregational Pastor at Salem, Mass., 1833; New York, 1839; and the Church of the Puritans, N. Y., 1846-67. He has published several works, and one, Deacon Giles Distillery, procured him a month's imprisonment, in 1835. In 1831 he edited the American Common Place Book of Poetry, and in 1851 Christian Melodies. The latter contains 19 hymns by him. One of these, "Thy loving-kindness, Lord, I sing," is still in common use. It is adopted in an abbreviated form of 4 stanzas by Dr. Hitchcock, in Hymns & Songs of Praise, N. Y., 1874, where it is dated 1845. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M. A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
George Barrell Cheever
John Parker
1825 - 1911 Person Name: Rev. John Parker Hymnal Number: 227 Author of "The Angels Are Looking On Me" in Faith Hymns (New ed.) John Parker, born in England, immigrated to the United States about 1847 at the age of 22. He was a Methodist pastor, serving churches in New York and Vermont. He was a chaplain in the U.S. Army during the Civil War. He died in Asbury Park, New York in 1911.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Christian Advocate," Vol. 86, September 28, 1911, P. 1298 (6)
John Parker
B. W. Gorham
Person Name: Rev. B. W. Gorham Hymnal Number: 175 Composer of "[The world is overcome by the blood of the Lamb]" in Faith Hymns (New ed.)
B. W. Gorham
B. M. Adams
Person Name: Rev. B. M. Adams Hymnal Number: 180 Author of "Clinging to the Cross" in Faith Hymns (New ed.) B. M. Adams was a Methodist minister of Brooklyn, New York, and was present and assisted at the opening of the camp meeting at Vineland New Jersey in 1867, and at Hamilton, Massachusetts in July, 1870. He died about 1903.
American writers and compilers of sacred music by Frank J. Metcalf (New York; Cincinnati: Abingdon Press, 1925)
B. M. Adams
Charles Cullis
Person Name: Charles Cullis, M.D. Editor of "" in Faith Hymns (New ed.)
Charles Cullis
Charles B. J. Root
Person Name: Chas. B. J. Root Hymnal Number: 253 Author of "Abiding" in Faith Hymns (New ed.)
Charles B. J. Root
Jennie Garnett
Hymnal Number: 213 Author of "Go and Tell Jesus" in Faith Hymns (New ed.) Fanny Crosby's Pseudonym. See Crosby, Fanny, 1820-1915
Jennie Garnett
E. T. Coffin
Hymnal Number: 180 Composer of "[Sad and weary with my longing]" in Faith Hymns (New ed.)
E. T. Coffin
Thomas O. Lowe
Person Name: Thos. O. Lowe Hymnal Number: 206 Composer of "[Down in the valley among the sweet lilies]" in Faith Hymns (New ed.)
Thomas O. Lowe
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