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J. Street

Hymnal Number: 214 Composer of "SILVER STREET" in The Good Old Songs

1790 - 1874 Person Name: Bost Hymnal Number: 315 Composer of "GRATITUDE" in The Good Old Songs Rev. Paul Ami Isaac David Bost, was born on June 10, 1790 in Geneva, Switzerland. He studied theology at the Moravian Institute at Neuwied and at the University of Geneva. He was an itinerant preacher in Switzerland, Germany and France. In 1825, he co-founded the Reformed Free Church of Geneva. From 1828-37 he worked as an evangelist in Carouge, After a brief pastorate at Asnires and Bourges in France, he was appointed chaplain of the prison of the Maison Centrale at Melun, where he remained until 1848, then lived in Geneva. He died on December 24, 1874 in Prigonrieux, Aquitaine, France. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (hymntime.com/tch)

Wm. Houser

Hymnal Number: 87 Arranger of "CHALMERS" in The Good Old Songs

James Christopher

1813 - 1844 Person Name: J. Christopher Hymnal Number: 436 Composer of "WONDROUS LOVE" in The Good Old Songs James Christopher (1813-1844) lived in Spartansburg, South Carolina. He contributed several tunes to William Walker's Southern Harmony, Edition 4 (1840). --David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan. 2010. The Makers of the Sacred Harp.

M. C. H. Davis

1795 - 1880 Hymnal Number: 262 Composer of "LIVERPOOL" in The Good Old Songs A clock maker and silver smith, Davis grew up in Newberry County, South Carolina, and appears in the 1850 and 1860 censuses there. By 1870, he and his wife Melinda had moved in with their daughter in Concord, South Carolina, and were living there through at least 1880. --www.hymntime.com/tch

Dean

Hymnal Number: 118 Composer of "CONSOLATION" in The Good Old Songs

A. Clark

Hymnal Number: 621 Composer of "PLENARY" in The Good Old Songs

Robison

Person Name: J. Robertson Hymnal Number: 687 Composer of "FIDUCIA" in The Good Old Songs The Southern Harmony, 1835, ascribes the tune FIDUCIA to "Robison". The same tune, in 1913, was credited to "J. Robertson" by the editor of The Good Old Songs. Whether this composer is the same as, or otherwise related to, the "J. Robison" who published a Methodist hymn book in 1873, remains unclear.