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George W. Crofts

1842 - 1909 Hymnal Number: d32 Author of "O tender arms, O gentle breast" in Gospel Melodies We have little data on Crofts, except that he was a minister. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

1816 - 1874 Person Name: Lucy Evelina Akerman Hymnal Number: d104 Author of "Nothing but leaves the spirit grieves" in Gospel Melodies 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)

Mary Lee Demarest

1838 - 1887 Hymnal Number: d62 Author of "My own sweet country" in Gospel Melodies Demarest, Mary, née Lee, b. at Corton Falls, New York, in 1838, married to Mr. Demarest, and died at Pasadena, California, in 1887. The story of her poem, "I am far frae my hame," which is given as a Sacred Song by I. D. Sankey in his Sacred Songs & Solos, was written in 1861, and printed in The New York Observer. Its history, too long for quotation here, is given in Mr. Sankey's My Life and Sacred Songs, 1906, pp. 161-2. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Peter Stryker

1826 - 1900 Hymnal Number: d59 Author of "How sweet the summer Sabbath" in Gospel Melodies Clergyman of Reformed Church, New York City

Jacob Richardson Scott

1815 - 1861 Person Name: J. R. Scott Hymnal Number: d179 Author of "To thee this temple we devote" in Gospel Melodies Scott, Jacob Richardson, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, March 1, 1815, and graduated in Arts at Brown University 1836, and in Theology at Newton Theological College, 1842. He entered the Baptist ministry in 1842, and was successively located at Petersburg, Virginia; Portland, Maine; at Fall River, Massachusetts; and Yonkers, New York. He died Dec. 10, 1861. His hymn “To Thee this temple we devote" (Dedication of a Place of Worship) was contributed to the Psalmist, 1843. It is found in several American hymn-books. [Rev. Frank M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

E. Norman Gunnison

1837 - 1880 Hymnal Number: d140 Author of "Ring the joybells, Christ is risen" in Gospel Melodies Born: May 15, 1837, Charlestown, Massachusetts. Gunnison’s poems appeared in Scribner’s Magazine, The Christian at Work, & the Daily Southern Cross. His works include: Our Stars for the Army of the Potomac (Ringwalt & Brown, 1863) One Summer’s Dream: An Idyll of the Vineyard and Other Poems (York, Pennsylvania: Hiram Young, 1875) Toni and Moidl: A Tale of the Border Tyrol Between Austria and Bavaria (San Francisco, California: A. J. Leary, 1884) Windsheim Bells and Other Poems (San Francisco, California: 1884) The Miracle of St. Kümmerniss (San Francisco, California: Commercial Publishing Company, 1887) --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Julia S. Haskell

Hymnal Number: d130 Author of "The Macedonian cry" in Gospel Melodies [Julia W. Sampson] Sampson, J. W. Miss Sampson is set forth in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878, as the author of "Weary of wandering long" (Divine Guidance Desired). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ================ Sampson, J. W., p. 1588, ii. Her hymn "Weary of wandering long" appeared in W. B. Bradbury's Golden Censer, 1864, p. 65 as by "Miss J. W. Sampson, Utica, N.Y." Other hymns with the same signature include "Sweetly sing, sweetly sing," in Bradbury's Golden Chain, 1861, p. 70, and "O, the Sabbath morning, beautiful and bright," in Happy Voice, 1865, No. 101. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ==================== 19th Century Died: After 1901. She was listed as living in her husband’s obituary in the Utica Sunday Journal, July 20, 1902. Haskell’s maiden name appears in an 1857 teacher’s directory of Utica, New York. She married Charles Freeman Haskell of Utica in 1866. An article in the July 6, 1876, issue of the Utica Daily Observer mentioned a poetry reading by her. Lyrics Heavenly Home Over the Ocean Wave Pilgrim Halting, Staff in Hand Sweetly Sing, Sweetly Sing This Life Is a Battle with Satan and Sin Weary of Wandering Long --www.hymntime.com/tch