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Herbert Buffum
1879 - 1939 Person Name: H. B. Author of "The Penitent's Plea" in Songs We Love Herbert Buffum was born in La Fayette, Illinois 13 November 1879. He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He started preaching at seventeen years of age. He did city mission work up and down the Pacific Coast and later in small towns in Kansas. He began publishing hymns at the age of eighteen.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
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William J. Kirkpatrick
1838 - 1921 Person Name: W. J. K. Arranger of "[Savior, hear me, while before Thy feet]" in The Best of All William J. Kirkpatrick (b. Duncannon, PA, 1838; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1921) received his musical training from his father and several other private teachers. A carpenter by trade, he engaged in the furniture business from 1862 to 1878. He left that profession to dedicate his life to music, serving as music director at Grace Methodist Church in Philadelphia. Kirkpatrick compiled some one hundred gospel song collections; his first, Devotional Melodies (1859), was published when he was only twenty-one years old. Many of these collections were first published by the John Hood Company and later by Kirkpatrick's own Praise Publishing Company, both in Philadelphia.
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H.B.
Person Name: H. B. Author of "The Penitent's Plea" in The Finest of the Wheat No. 2 H. B. Under these initials the hymn, "Hark, the swelling breezes" (Missions), was given in the 1876 edition of the Hymnal Companion and later in other collections. The authoress desires to remain unknown.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Herbert H. Booth
1862 - 1926 Person Name: H. H. B. Author of "The Penitent's Plea" in Melodies of Grace and Truth Herbert Henry Howard Booth (26 August 1862 – 25 September 1926) was the third son of William and Catherine Booth. He oversaw the Limelight Department's development and he was the writer and director for Soldiers of the Cross.
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