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W. Weiss

Person Name: W. Weiss. Composer of "CHRIST, THOU ART THE LIGHT OF DAY" in Christian Hymns

John Price

1857 - 1930 Person Name: John Price (Beulah), b. 1857 Composer of "GWYNETH" in Trinity Hymnal

1874 - 1955 Composer of "VIENNA" in Echoes of Paradise Born: March 31, 1874, Washington, DC. Died: March 27, 1955, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Buried: International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. After attending college in Battle Creek, Michigan, Harris produced his first hymnal in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois at the invitation of Peter Bilhorn, and in 1932, to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He composed and compiled a number of works, and was well known locally as he walked around with a canvas bag full of handbooks for sale. His works include: Light and Life Songs, with William Olmstead & William Kirkpatrick (Chicago, Illinois: S. K. J. Chesbro, 1904) Little Branches, with George J. Meyer & Howard E. Smith (Chicago, Illinois: Meyer & Brother, 1906) Best Temperance Songs (Chicago, Illinois: The Glad Tidings Publishing Company, 1913) (music editor) Hymns of Hope (Chicago, Illinois: Thoro Harris, undated, circa 1922) --www.hymntime.com/tch

James Nevett Steele

1850 - 1916 Person Name: J. Nevett Steele Composer of "[Just as I am,—without one plea]" in Hymns and Carols Set to Music

James R. Haney

Person Name: J. R. H. Author (Chorus) of "Just as I Am" in New Melodies James Rowe Haney

J. J. Jelley

Composer of "[Just as I am, without one plea]" in Pearls of Praise

W. F. Stewart

Composer of "[Just as I am, without one plea]" in Celestial Songs

A. J. Showalter

1858 - 1924 Composer of "DAUERTY" in Singing for Joy Anthony Johnson Showalter USA 1858-1924/ Born in Cherry Grove, VA, he became an organist, gospel music composer, author, teacher, editor, and publisher. He was taught by his father and in 1876 received training at the Ruebush-Kieffer School of Music, Dayton, VA. He also attended George Root’s National Normal school at Erie, PA, and Dr Palmer’s International Normal at Meadville, PA. He was teaching music in shape note singing schools by age 14. He taught literary school at age 19, and normal music schools at age 22, when he also published his first book. In 1881 he married Lucy Carolyn (Callie) Walser of TX, and they had seven children: Tennie, Karl, Essie, Jennie, Lena, Margaret, and Nellie. At age 23 he published his “Harmony & composition” book, and years later his “Theory of music”. In 1884 he moved to Dalton, GA, and in 1890 formed the Showalter Music Company of Dalton. His company printed and published hymnals, songbooks, schoolbooks, magazines, and newspapers, and had offices in Texarkana, AR, and Chattanooga, TN. In 1888 he became a member of the M T N A (Music Teachers National Association) and was vice-president for his state for several years. In 1895 he went abroad to study methods of teachers and conductors in Europe. He held sessions of his Southern Normal Music Institute in a dozen or more states. He edited “The music teacher & home magazine” for 20 years. In 1895 he issued his “New harmony & composition” book. He authored 60+ books on music theory, harmony, and song. He published 130+ music books that sold over a million copies. Not only was he president of the A J Showalter Music Company of Dalton, GA, but also of the Showalter-Patton Company of Dallas, TX, two of the largest music publishing houses in the American south. He was a choir leader and an elder in the First Presbyterian Church in Dalton (and his daughter, Essie, played the organ there). He managed his fruit farm, looking after nearly 20,000 trees , of which 15,000 are the famous Georgia Elberta peaches, the rest being apples, plums, pecans, and a dozen other varieties of peaches. He was also a stockholder and director of the Cherokee Lumber Company of Dalton, GA, furnishing building materials to a large trade in many southern, central and eastern states. He died in Chattanooga, TN, and is buried in Dalton, GA. He loved hymns, and kept up with many of his students over the years, writing them letters of counsel and encouragement. In 2000 Showalter was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Note: Showalter received two letters one evening from former music students, both of who were grieving over the death of their wives. He had heard a sermon about the arms of Moses being held up during battle, and managed to form a tune and refrain for a hymn, but struggled to find words for the verses that fit. He wrote to his friend in OH, Rev Elisha Hoffman, who had already composed many hymns and asked if he could write some lyrics, which he gladly did. John Perry

William Burton Walbert

1886 - 1959 Person Name: W. B. Walbert Composer of "[Just as I am! Without one plea, on plea]" in Blissful Showers Gospel music singer, composer, and editor, long associated with the James D. Vaughan Music Company, father of noted pianist and composer James D. Walbert

Leo Kofler

1837 - 1908 Person Name: Leo Kofler, 1837-1908 Arranger of "ST. PAUL'S" in AGO Founders Hymnal A Founder of the American Guild of Organists. Born in the Austrian Tyrol; organist and choirmaster of St. Paul's Chapel, Trinity Parish, NYC, 1877-1908. Died in New Orleans. A voice specialist, he published Take Care of Your Voice or The Golden Rule of Health, and The Art of Breathing as the Basis of Tone Production, and a volume of collected articles from The Voice entitled The Old Italian School of Singing (Albany, 1883). (source: AGO Founders Hymnal)