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Rodolfo Hasse

Person Name: Rodolfo Hasse (1890-1968) Translator of "Faze-me, ó Deus, guardar (2)" in Mil Vozes para Celebrar Started Comunidade Evangélica Luterana da Paz, affilieated with Igreja Evangélica Luterana do Brasil in 1932. It was the first Lutheran congregation in Rio de Janeiro

Richard P. Howard

b. 1929 Person Name: Richard Howard, 1929- Author (st. 3) of "A Charge to Keep I Have" in Community of Christ Sings

Ilyas Saleh

1839 - 1885 Person Name: الياس بن موسى بن سمعان صالح Author of "لاسمك ينبغي التسبيح في صهيون" in بهجة الضمير في نظم المزامير (Psalter) إلياس بن موسى بن سمعان صالح المعروف بإلياس صالح اللاذقي Syrian poet, writer, and historian.

William Everett

1839 - 1910 Person Name: William Everett (1839- ) Author of "Deal gently with us, Lord!" in Hymnal Amore Dei Everett, William, LL.D., s. of the Hon. Edward Everett, was born at Watertown, Massachusetts, Oct. 10, 1839, and educated at Harvard College and Trinity College, Cambridge, England, M.A. 1869. He became Latin Tutor in Harvard Coll. in 1870, and Assistant Professor of Latin in 1873. He entered the Unitarian Ministry in 1872. Putnam gives six of his hymns in Singers and Songs, &c, 1874, p. 504. The best are "Deal gently with us, Lord" [God’s tenderness], from the American Christian Register, 1866; and "Almighty Father, Thou didst frame" [God the Father]," written for the Unitarian Festival at the Music Hall, May 27, 1869." He has published College Essays; School Sermons , and other works. He is LL.D. of Williams College, Mass. [Rev. C. L. Noyes, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ========================== Everett, William. (Watertown, Massachusetts, October 10, 1839--February 16, 1910, Quincy, Massachusetts). Son of Hon. Edward Everett. He graduated from Harvard College in 1859; took the B.A. degree at Cambridge University, England, in 1863; and the degrees of A.M. and LL.B. at Harvard in 1865. He received the honorary degree of Litt.D. from Williams College in 1889 and the degree of LL.D. from the same in 1893, and from Dartmouth in 1901. After graduation from the Harvard Law School he did not enter the legal profession, but served the College as tutor and then Assistant Professor of Latin for several years. In 1872, the Boston Association of Ministers licensed him as a lay preacher and thereafter he spoke frequently in Unitarian pulpits in New England, abut he was never ordained as a settled minister. He served Adams Academy in Quincy, Massachusetts as headmaster from 1877 to 1907, with an interruption of two years when in 1893 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives in Washington. In 1866, The Christian Register printed his hymn beginning "Deal gently with us, Lord" and three years later he wrote "for the Unitarian Festival at the Music Hall [Boston], May 27, 1869" a hymn beginning "Almighty Father, Thou didst frame." These hymns, and four others by him, are included in Putnam's Singers and Songs, Etc.. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives