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Mrs. Friolin Sluessy

Hymnal Number: 7845 Composer of "[A prayer on the wings of an angel]" in The Cyber Hymnal

Charles L. Ziegler

Person Name: Charles Lincoln Ziegler Hymnal Number: 5445 Composer of "CHURCH VIGILANT" in The Cyber Hymnal

Mary O. Sparrow

Hymnal Number: 9250 Author of "The Lord's My Redeemer" in The Cyber Hymnal

Jessie Willdy

Person Name: Jessie D. Willdy Hymnal Number: 10351 Author of "As Ever Flow The Waters To The Sea" in The Cyber Hymnal

1828 - 1905 Person Name: Susie V. Aldrich Hymnal Number: 7887 Author of "The Messenger" in The Cyber Hymnal Miss Susanna Valentine Aldrich, author, was born in Hopkinton, Mass, 14th November, 1828. She is the only child of Willard and Lucy (Morse) Aldrich. From her earliest years she showed a decided literary bent. Her studies were interrupted by a severe illness lasting for years. A victim to insomnia, she always kept paper and pencil within reach in order to jot down the fancies that thronged upon her. Encouraged by the Rev. J. C. Webster, her pastor, also one of the directors of the academy which Miss Aldrich attended, some of her compositions were offered to a magazine, and were accepted. For many years Miss Aldrich contributed both prose and poetry to a number of papers and magazines. since 1879 she has made her home in the Roxbury District of Boston. 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

Zimmerman

Hymnal Number: 12278 Composer of "THE GOLDEN RULE" in The Cyber Hymnal

J. B. Greenwood

1828 - 1905 Person Name: John B. Greenwood, 1832-1905 Hymnal Number: 9338 Author of "Crown With Thy Benediction" in The Cyber Hymnal Greenwood, John Brooke, born at Huddersfield, Feb. 9, 1828, and educated at the Huddersfield College, is a merchant shipper of cotton yarn to the continental markets. In 1853 he published Records-Memorial of E. B. Cave. He has written many hymns, chiefly for Sunday-school anniversary services, and other special occasions. Of these the following, which appeared with others in an Appendix to the Leeds Sunday School Hymn Book, published for the use of the Cheetham Hill (Manchester) Sunday School, are in common use outside that collection:— 1. Crown with Thy benediction. Holy Matrimony. 2. Finding: no place of rest. Return of the Dove to the Ark. 3. How long, 0 Lord, how long? Thy children sigh. First pub. in the Manchester Congregational Magazine. 4. There is no fold so fair as Thine. The Church of Christ. 5. What shall we render, Lord, to Thee? Holy Baptism. The full text of No. 2 is 7 stanzas, i.-iv. forming the original, and v.-vii. being a subsequent addition. Through a Roman Catholic relative of the author st. i.-iv. were given in the Catholic Progress with her initial " S." From thence it was taken by Mr. Orby Shipley and included in his Annus Sanctus, 1884, Pt. ii., p. 81, with the same signature. The full text is in Horder's The Poet's Bible. Mr. Greenwood's hymns possess great tenderness and refinement, and are worthy of greater attention than they have received. [Rev. W. Garrett Horder] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology

Ellen C. Worth

Person Name: Mrs. Ellen C. Worth Hymnal Number: 15928 Author of "Are You Waiting?" in The Cyber Hymnal

John E. Zoller

Hymnal Number: 10134 Author of "Show Us Thy Way" in The Cyber Hymnal

Mrs. Susie May Patterson Wyburn

1880 - 1958 Person Name: Susie May Patterson Wyburn Hymnal Number: 10341 Author of "What A Precious Savior" in The Cyber Hymnal May was a volunteer at the Bowery Mission in New York when she met John H. Wyburn, who was then superintendent of the Mission. John Wyburn later became assistant superintendent and then superintendent of the McAuley Water Street Mission. She wrote the book, But Until Seventy Times Seven (New York, 1936) a story of the mission through the lives of its three early leaders. Dianne Shapiro, from the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions (AGRM) web site, accessed 8/18/2016