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Anonymous

Person Name: Anon. Author of "Beautiful Zion, Built Above" in The Christian Sunday School Hymnal In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

William B. Bradbury

1816 - 1868 Person Name: Wm. B. Bradbury Composer of "[Beautiful Zion built above]" in Hymns of Praise with Tunes William Batchelder Bradbury USA 1816-1868. Born at York, ME, he was raised on his father's farm, with rainy days spent in a shoe-shop, the custom in those days. He loved music and spent spare hours practicing any music he could find. In 1830 the family moved to Boston, where he first saw and heard an organ and piano, and other instruments. He became an organist at 15. He attended Dr. Lowell Mason's singing classes, and later sang in the Bowdoin Street church choir. Dr. Mason became a good friend. He made $100/yr playing the organ, and was still in Dr. Mason's choir. Dr. Mason gave him a chance to teach singing in Machias, ME, which he accepted. He returned to Boston the following year to marry Adra Esther Fessenden in 1838, then relocated to Saint John, New Brunswick. Where his efforts were not much appreciated, so he returned to Boston. He was offered charge of music and organ at the First Baptist Church of Brooklyn. That led to similar work at the Baptist Tabernacle, New York City, where he also started a singing class. That started singing schools in various parts of the city, and eventually resulted in music festivals, held at the Broadway Tabernacle, a prominent city event. He conducted a 1000 children choir there, which resulted in music being taught as regular study in public schools of the city. He began writing music and publishing it. In 1847 he went with his wife to Europe to study with some of the music masters in London and also Germany. He attended Mendelssohn funeral while there. He went to Switzerland before returning to the states, and upon returning, commenced teaching, conducting conventions, composing, and editing music books. In 1851, with his brother, Edward, he began manufacturring Bradbury pianos, which became popular. Also, he had a small office in one of his warehouses in New York and often went there to spend time in private devotions. As a professor, he edited 59 books of sacred and secular music, much of which he wrote. He attended the Presbyterian church in Bloomfield, NJ, for many years later in life. He contracted tuberculosis the last two years of his life. John Perry

Wayne Hooper

1920 - 2007 Person Name: Wayne Hooper (1920-2007) Arranger of "[Beautiful Zion, built above]" in Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal Born: July 4, 1920, Little Rock, Arkansas. Died: February 28, 2007, at his home in Thousand Oaks, California. Hooper sang baritone with the King’s Quartet group for 18 years, and arranged and composed music for the group for 33 years. He taught music at the Portland (Oregon) Academy and Union College, Lincoln, Nebraska; served as musical director of the Voice of Prophecy broadcast; directed development and marketing for Hosanna House; did arranging and orchestration for Chapel Records; was musical co-editor of the 1985 Seventh-day Adventist hymnal; and co-authored the Companion to the SDA Hymnal. Andrews and La Sierra Universities awarded honorary doctor of music degrees to him. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

George Gill

1820 - 1880 Author of "Beautiful Zion" in The Cyber Hymnal Gill, George, son of William Gill, was born at Tiverton, Devonshire, Jan. 23, 1820, and was for some time a missionary in the South Sea Islands. His hymn, "Beautiful Zion, built above " (Heaven), was "written" the author says, "on the island of Mangaia, South Seas, April, 1850." It was printed in the Juvenile Missionary Magazine in 1852. His re-written form of Phoebe Cary’s “One Sweetly Solemn Thought” beginning “this sweetly solemn thought” is dated 1861 and also appeared in the Juvenile Missionary Magazine, Gill left the South Sea in 1860, and in 1861 became pastor of Wesgate Congregational Chapel, Burnley. He died Aug. 19, 1880. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

T. J. Cook

1826 - 1876 Composer of "[Beautiful Zion, built above]" in The Praise Book 19th Century We have little data on Cook, except that he was a teacher. He evidently lived in the New York City area in the 1860s. His works include: The Olive Branch, with Theodore Perkins (New York: F. J. Huntington, 1860) The Evergreen, with Theodore Perkins (New York: F. J. Huntington, 1862) Music: BEAUTIFUL ZION JESUS, GUIDE OUR WAY LITTLE CHILDREN, COME TO JESUS WHAT HAVE I DONE FOR THEE? --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Lucius Hart

Person Name: L. Hart Arranger of "BEAUTIFUL CITY" in The New Sabbath School Hosanna Late 19th Century

Thomas Cook

Person Name: Thos. J. Cook Composer of "[Beautiful Zion, built above]" in Great Songs of the Church

J. M. Hunt

1855 - 1919 Composer of "[Beautiful Zion, built above]" in Songs of Zion As of 1885, Hunt lived in Lampasas, Texas. His works include: Harvest Bells, with William Penn Harvest Bells No. 2, with William Penn (Cincinnati, Ohio: The John Church Company, 1885) The Gospel Alarm, with Sanford Miller Brown (St. Louis, Missouri: Central Baptist, 1886) The Missionary Triumph, with Sanford Miller Brown (Cincinnati, Ohio: The John Church Company, 1889) Songs of Zion, with Sanford Miller Brown (Kansas City, Missouri: Word and Way Publishing Company, 1898) --www.hymntime.com/tch

R. A. Glenn

Composer of "[Beautiful Zion built above]" in The Evangelists' Songs of Praise No. 2 Late 19th Century Glenn’s works include: New Melodies of Praise, with Aldine Kieffer (Singers Glen, Virginia: Ruebush, Kieffer & Company, 1877) The Song Victor for the Sunday School and Public School Use (Cincinnati, Ohio: F. W. Helmick, 1878) Purest Pearls, with G. Holmes & A. D. Kennedy (Cleveland, Ohio: J. H. Leslie, 1881) Joy and Praise for Sunday Schools, with Daniel Crist (Cincinnati, Ohio: H. L. Benham & Company, 1886) --www.hymntime.com/tch/

A. D. Fillmore

1823 - 1869 Composer of "[Beautiful Zion, built above]" in The Little Minstrel Fillmore, Augustus Damon. (Gallia County, Ohio, September 7, 1823--June 10, 1870, Cincinnati, Ohio). Minister, Christian Church. Co-editor (with Silas White Leonard, 1814-1870) or Christian Psalmist (1847), which "probably had a more general circulation than any other of his publications." Author of "Come, come, come to the Saviour" and composer of several hymn tunes. --George Brandon, DNAH Archives