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James Bingham

b. 1945 Person Name: James Bingham (1945- ) Composer of "PHOS HILARON" in Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal

1812 - 1893 Author of "O God of light and love" Waterston, Robert Cassie, M.A., son of Robert Waterston, was born at Kennebunk, in 1812, but has resided from his infancy at Boston, Massachusetts. He studied Theology at Cambridge; had for five years the charge of a Sunday school for the children of seamen; was associated for several years with the Pitts Street Unitarian Chapel, Boston; and then pastor for seven years of the Unitarian Church of the Saviour in the same city. Much of his time has been given to literature, and a long list of his papers of various kinds is given in Putnam's Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith, 1874. He also interested himself largely in educational matters. He contributed one hymn to the American Unitarian Cheshire Pastoral Association Christian Hymns, 1844; to his own popular Supplement to Greenwood's Psalms and Hymns, 1845, and others to various works. Putnam gives 20 poetical pieces in his Singers and Songs, &c, 1874, amongst which are the following, which are in common use at the present time:— 1. In darkest hours I hear a voice. Looking unto Jesus. Contributed to Putnam's Singers and Songs, &c, 1874, and found in a few collections. 2. In each breeze that wanders free. Nature and the Soul. Published before 1853, and again in Putnam, 1874. The hymn "Nature, with eternal youth," in Hedge and Huntington's Hymns for the Church of Christ, 1853, No. 185, is composed of stanza iv-vii. of this piece. 3. One sweet [bright] flower has drooped and faded. Death of a Child. Appeared in the American Unitarian Cheshire Pastoral Association Christian Hymns, 1844, No. 668, and again in Putnam, 1874, as “One bright flower, &c." It is in several collections. In the Christian Hymns the heading is "Death of a Pupil;" and Putnam, "On the Death of a Child. Sung by her classmates." In Putnam there are other pieces by him which are worthy of attention. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Jacob Kimball

1761 - 1826 Composer of "PLAINFIELD" in Hymnal Kimball, Jacob. (Topsfield, Massachusetts, February 15, 1761--July 24, 1826, Topsfield). He graduated from Harvard in 1780, studied law, taught school, and tried to make a living at various other occupations, with small success except in the field of music where he was regarded as an outstanding singer, teacher, and composer of his period. He edited Rural Harmony (Boston, 1793) which he followed with Essex Harmony (1800), and Essex Harmony, Part II (1802), which included the only tunes of his own composition which can now be identified as his, except those in the popular Village Harmony (1795) the later editions of which, down to 1821, were probably edited by him. There is evidence that he also wrote poetry, including a number of hymns, some of them perhaps anonymous ones, otherwise unknown, included in the above-mentioned song books. The one hymn which can be attributed to him with assurance is his excellent metrical version of Psalm 65 which Jeremy Belknap included in his Sacred Psalmody (1795), entitled "A New Version" and beginning "Thy praise, O God, in Zion waits." The only other hymn by an American author in Belknap's collection is Mather Byles' "When wild confusion wrecks the air," republished in 1760. See: Jacob Kimball: A Pioneer American Musician, Essex Institution Historical Collections, XCII, no. 4. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Carlos Colón

b. 1966 Person Name: Carlos Colón, b. 1966 Translator of "O Spirit of the Living God (Viviente Espíritu de nuestro Dios)" in Santo, Santo, Santo

Isaac Errett

1820 - 1888 Author of "I Praise Thy Name, O God of Light" in Songs of Evangelism Isaac Errett, founder of the Christian Standard Magazine, is a critical figure in the American Restoration Movement. In the Mid 1860’s, as founder, publisher, editor of the Christian Standard, he sits at the center of the great hymnbook controversy that represents the first unofficial split in restoration movement churches in North America. Debate over whether or not music should be included, whether or not a preponderance of new Gospel Songs should be included or even sung at all as they were deemed to be inappropriate by many of Errett’s contemporaries and movement leaders such as Alexander Campbell is what led to this first monumental division that was officially recognized in 1906 by the US Census where Churches of Christ (A Cappella), Churches of Christ-Instrumental/Christian Churches and Disciples of Christ became three separate denominational entities. Isaac Errett was born in the city of New York, January 2, 1820. His father was a native of Arklaw, county of Wicklow, Ireland, and his mother was a native of Portsmouth, England. His immediate parents were both of Protestant families, and became identified with the Disciples in New York City as early as 1811—the father being an elder in the original Church in that place. He commenced preaching in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the spring of 1840. He enjoyed the advantages of frequent and intimate association with Walter Scott, Thomas Campbell, Alexander Campbell, and most of the early advocates of primitive Christianity in the West; and his association with these men was of incalculable advantage to him, for they not only gave him valuable instruction in the principles of the Reformation, but he was enabled, by coming in frequent contact with them, to draw inspiration from their lives and characters for the great work upon which he had entered. His ministerial labors have been divided between the work of an evangelist and pastor. He was pastor of a church in Pittsburgh three years; New Lisbon, Ohio, five years; North Bloomfield, Ohio, two years; Warren, Ohio, five years; Muir and Ionia, Michigan, eight years; and Detroit, Michigan, two years. At all these points he was eminently successful, and, besides his regular pastoral labors, did considerable work in the general field. He removed to Warren, Ohio, in 1851, and, while there, was Corresponding Secretary of the Ohio Missionary Society three years; and it was he who first put that society into systematic and active operation. In 1856, he removed his family to Ionia County, Michigan, and, while laboring to build up a congregation at that point, he was prevailed upon to take the Corresponding Secretaryship of the American Christian Missionary Society, which position he held three years, and succeeded in bringing the society to a degree of prosperity which it had never before reached. When he resigned the Secretaryship, he was appointed first Vice-President and afterward presided at the annual meetings of the Society until 1866, when he was elected President. This, however, he at once declined. In the spring of 1866 he removed to Cleveland, Ohio, where he now resides, and edits the "Christian Standard," a religious weekly published in that city. D. J. Bulls, (edited), from "Biographies and sermons from pioneer preachers" by B. C. Goodpasture and W. T. Moore

Audrey Assad

b. 1983 Composer of "O SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD" in Santo, Santo, Santo

Franklin W. Bartlett

1843 - 1915 Person Name: Franklin Weston Bartlett, D. D. Author of "O God of Light" in The Gospel Way Bartlett, Franklin Weston, D.D., born at Towanda, Pen., Aug. 30, 1843; B.A., Union University, N.Y., 1865; Hon. M.A., Williams College, Mass.; D.D., Union University; Rector of various churches in Pen. and N. England, and for some time Prof. of Hebrew in Williams College. His hymns appeared mainly in the weekly press, including "Thy glorious name of Love" (Sunday); "0 God Triune, we praise and bless" (Holy Trinity); "Sun of my life, Thy rays divine" (The Christian's Light ). His hymn for Holy Communion, "Saviour, Who didst come to give," in The Hymnal of the Trot. Episcopal Church, 1892, was first printed in The Living Church, 1885, and passed from thence into several collections. It is a great drawback to Dr. Bartlett's hymns that they have not been gathered together in book form. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ======================= Bartlett, Franklin Weston (Towanda, Pennsylvania, August 30, 1843--ca.1917). Graduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York, B.A., 1865, which later honored him with a D.D. degree. In the 1880s he was living in Towanda, then in the next decade was rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, Williamstown, Massachusetts, and professor of Hebrew at Williams College. Williams gave him an honorary M.A. degree. After the turn of the century he was rector of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Rockport, Mass. His last years were spend in Mansfield, Ohio. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives