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I. B. Woodbury

1819 - 1858 Person Name: J. B. Woodbury Author of "Reapers of Life's Harvest" in Pentecostal Hymns No. 2 Woodbury, Isaac Baker. (Beverly, Massachusetts, October 23, 1819--October 26, 1858, Columbia, South Carolina). Music editor. As a boy, he studied music in nearby Boston, then spent his nineteenth year in further study in London and Paris. He taught for six years in Boston, traveling throughout New England with the Bay State Glee Club. He later lived at Bellow Falls, Vermont, where he organized the New Hampshire and Vermont Musical Association. In 1849 he settled in New York City where he directed the music at the Rutgers Street Church until ill-health caused him to resign in 1851. He became editor of the New York Musical Review and made another trip to Europe in 1852 to collect material for the magazine. in the fall of 1858 his health broke down from overwork and he went south hoping to regain his strength, but died three days after reaching Columbia, South Carolina. He published a number of tune-books, of which the Dulcimer, of New York Collection of Sacred Music, went through a number of editions. His Elements of Musical Composition, 1844, was later issued as the Self-instructor in Musical Composition. He also assisted in the compilation of the Methodist Hymn Book of 1857. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives

George James Webb

1803 - 1887 Person Name: Geo. J. Webb Composer of "WEBB" in Songs for Young People George James Webb, b. 1803,England; d. 1887, Orange, N. J. Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

Anonymous

Person Name: Anon. Author of "Ho! reapers of life's harvest" in Good-Will Songs 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.

J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[Ho! reapers of life's harvest]" in The Praise Hymnal James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry

Marianne Farningham

1834 - 1909 Person Name: M. Farningham Author of "Ho reapers of life's harvest" in The Advent Christian Hymnal Pseudonym, real name Marianne Hearn. =========================================== Hearn, Marianne, known to the public only by her nom deplume of Marianne Farningham, was born at Farningham, in Kent, Dec. 17, 1834. She resided for short periods at Bristol and Gravesend, and since 1865 at Northampton. Miss Farningham is a member of the Baptist denomination. Her literary work has been done chiefly in connection with the Christian World newspaper, on the staff of which she has been from its first publication. She is also editor of the Sunday School Times. Most of her contributions to the Christian World have been republished in book form, and include:— (1) Lays and Lyrics of the Blessed Life, 1861. (2) Poems, 1865. (3) Morning and Evening Hymns for the Week, 1870. (4) Songs of Sunshine, 1878. From these works the following hymns have passed into common use:— 1. Father Who givest us now the New Year. Old and New Year. From her Songs of Sunshine, 1878. 2. Hail the children's festal day. Sunday School Anniversaries. Appeared in the Sunday School Times, 1875. 3. Let the children come, Christ said. Christ's invitation of children. In G. Barrett's Book of Praise for Children, 1881. It was written in 1877. 4. When mysterious whispers are floating about. Death anticipated. Appeared in the Christian World, in the Autumn of 1864; and again in her work, Poems, 1865. In I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, it is entitled "Waiting and Watching for me" (the refrain of each stanza), and is altered to "When my final farewell lo the world I have said." This is the most popular of Miss Hearn's hymns. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology =============== Hearn, Marianne [Farningham], pp. 502, ii.; 1587, ii. Miss Hearn published in 1903 Harvest Gleanings and Gathered Fragments. Other hymns by her in common use include:— 1. Anywhere with Jesus. [Follow Christ] In her Lays and Lyrics, 1860, p. 163. 2. Christ, we children sing to Thee. [Praise to Jesus.] Written for C. Bonners Garland of New Sunday School Music, 1881 (1886, No. 2). 3. He smiled as He stretched out Hit hand in glad welcome. [God's Call.] In the Baptist Junior Hymnal, 1906, No. 175. 4. Just as I am, Thine own to be. [Follow Christ.] Contributed to the Voice of Praise, 1887, No. 348. Suggested by Miss Elliott's better-known hymn. 5. Little feet are passing. [The Way to Heaven.] In her Poems, 1866, p. 271. 6. Sing, for the world rejoiceth. [Spring.] Contributed to the Voice of Praise, 1887, No. 470. We may note that "Father! abide with us," p. 365, ii., is by her, from Lays and Lyrics, 1860, p. 143. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Mary Anne Hearne

1834 - 1909 Person Name: M. F. Hearn Author of "Ho! reapers of life's harvest" in The Praise Hymnal See also Farningham, Marrianne, 1834-1909

W. J. Baltzell

1864 - 1928 Composer of "[Ho! reapers of life's harvest]" in Missionary Songs

Norman W. Smith

1833 - 1917 Person Name: N. W. Smith Composer of "WHITFIELD" in Zion's Praises (1st ed.)

A. B. Irving

Composer of "[Ho! reapers of life's harvest]" in Gathered Jewels

Alfred Arthur

1844 - 1918 Person Name: A. Arthur Composer of "[Ho! reapers of life's harvest]" in The Spirit of Praise Alfred Arthur, born of American parentage near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, oct. 8, 1844. He studied at the Music School, Boston, singing under B. F. Baker, pianoforte under George Howard, and brass instruments under Matthew Arbuckle and Henry brown; and at the Boston Conservatory harmony and composition under Julius Eichberg. After singing tenor in the Church of the Advent, Boston, two yaers, he settled in 1871 in Cleveland, Ohio, as a teacher of vocal music and leader of the Germania Orchestra. He was a member for a few months of the choir of Trinity Church in that city, and later of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, where he remained until 1878, when he formed the Bach Choir of the Woodland Avenue Presbyterian Church. This society is ranked as one of the best chorus choirs in the United States. In 1873 The Cleveland Vocal Society was formed, with Mr. Arthur as conductor. He was also director of the Cleveland School of Music. He visited Europe in 1879 and in 1887. Works: The Walter Carrier, opera, 1876; The Roundheads and Cavaliers, do, 1878; Adaline, opera, 1879-84, Songs: Memory's Dream; Tell it, Silver Throat, etc. Didactic: Progressive Vocal Studies, 1887; Album of Vocal Studies, 1887; and other vocal studies. He has also compiled the following hymn-books: Evangelical Hymnal; Spirit of Praise. Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by John Denison Camplin, Jr. and William Foster Apthorp (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888)