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Alfred Henry Reynar

1840 - 1921 Person Name: Alfred Henry Reynar, 1840 - 1921 Translator of "O'er field and forest stealing" in The Hymnary of the United Church of Canada Reynar, Alfred Henry. (Quebec City, 1840--September 26, 1921, Toronto, Ontario). Methodist. Victoria University (then located at Cobourg, Ont.), B.A., 1862; M.A., 1869. Except for one pastorate at Shefford, Ont., 1864-1865, he taught English and modern languages at Victoria from his graduation until his retirement in 1909 (by which time the college had relocated in Toronto), thus influencing two generations of Canada's leading Methodists. In 1871 he married the daughter of William Morley Punshon. He served on the compilation committee for, and contributed translations to, the Methodist Hymn Book of 1917. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives

Jakob Friedrich Feddersen

1736 - 1788 Person Name: Feddersen Author of "Du, Herr von meinen Tagen" in Evangelisches Gesangbuch mit vierstimmigen Melodien

Lillias C. Nevin

Person Name: Lillian C. Nevin Author of "The Lord Jehovah Reigneth" in Ocean Grove Christian Songs

H. Steffenson

Person Name: H. Steffensen Author of "O God, Before I Slumber" in Hymnal for Church and Home

Tadeusz Sikora

Translator of "W spaniałość naszej ziemi" in Śpiewnik Ewangelicki

Ewald Kockritz

1876 - 1931 Person Name: Rev. Ewald Kockritz Author of "As fades the daylight splendor" in The Evangelical Hymnal Julius Ewald Kockritz, 1876-1931 Born: January 3, 1876, Napoleonville, Louisiana. Died: March 28, 1931. Buried: Fernwood Cemetery, Henderson, Kentucky. Son of Herman and Emma Winkler Kockritz, Ewald was one of 10 children. He grew up in Henderson, Kentucky, and as a young man, worked for a grain company, and as a journalist and telegraph operator. At age 16, he became private secretary to Governor John Young of Kentucky, a post he held three years. He then attended Eden Theological Seminary (graduated 1901), and Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio (graduated 1908). Kockritz served pastorates in Clarington, Ohio (1901-05); St. Luke’s, Cincinnati (1905-10); Salem, New Orleans (1910-17); and Bethel, Evansville (1917-31). He became a leader in the Lutheran Evangelical Synod of North America: He edited several of the denomination’s Sunday school publications (1907-15), served on the Sunday School Board, and on the Board of Religious Education (1913-29, chairman for eight years). He also served on the War Welfare Commission in World War I, was his denomination’s moderator in 1929, and was the synod’s general secretary the last years of his life. --www.hymntime.com/tch