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Miriam E. Arnold

Hymnal Number: d30 Author of "Get right with God, dear sinner Come seek Him" in Waves of Salvation, Nos. 1 and 2 Combined Miriam E. Arnold was born in England, but moved with her parents at the age of five. They settled in Mount Clemens, Michigan. Her family was deeply religious. Her first poem was published in 1895 and she continued to write about 100 others, almost all of which have been set to music. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Edgar Jackson

Hymnal Number: d90 Author of "He is coming in the clouds" in Waves of Salvation, Nos. 1 and 2 Combined

M. B. Williams

Hymnal Number: d126 Author of "My mother's Bible" in Waves of Salvation, Nos. 1 and 2 Combined Milan Bertrand Williams; evangelist; fl. 1896-1910 LOC Name Authority Files

Lou Singletary Bedford

1837 - 1945 Person Name: Lou S. Bedford Hymnal Number: d111 Author of "The lost soul's lament" in Waves of Salvation, Nos. 1 and 2 Combined Mrs. Lou Singletary Bedford, author, born in Feliciana, Graves county, Kentucky, 7th April 1837. Her father was a teacher, and his little daughter placed n his school at six years of age. she had no special love for books, except for reading, spelling and grammar, but her ambition kept her at the head of most of her classes. she completed her course of study in Clinton Seminary. After leaving school she taught for a year or two. In 1857 she became the wife of John Joseph Bedford, a friend and associate of her childhood. There were six children born to them. Mrs. Bedford's literary career has in great measure become identified with Texas, her adopted home. From her sixteenth year she continued to write until her marriage, after which her pen was silent for nearly fifteen years. She has published two volumes of poetry."A Vision, and Other Poems" (Cincinnati and London, 1881) and "Gathered Leaves" (Dallas, 1889). Mrs. Bedford has for years contributed to various periodicals. She resided in El Paso, Texas where she was social and literary editor of the El Paso "Sunday Morning Tribune." From American Women: fifteen hundred biographies, with over 1,400 photos: a comprehensive encyclopedia of the lives and achievements of American women during the nineteenth century (Rev. ed.) by Frances E. Willard an Mary A Livermore (New York/Chicago/Springfield, OH: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1897

W. F. Allen

Hymnal Number: d110 Author of "What will you do with Jesus" in Waves of Salvation, Nos. 1 and 2 Combined First name: William (1913 Catalog of Copyright entries)