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Ernst Gebhardt

1832 - 1899 Person Name: E. Gebhardt Translator of "Mein Vater ist reich" in Pilgerklänge

1834 - 1910 Author of "A Child of the King" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) Hattie (Katie) Eugenia Peck Buell USA 1834-1910. Born in Cazenovia, NY, she lived in Manlius, NY, until 1898, then moved to Washington, D.C., but maintained a summer residence at Thousand Island Park, NY. She married Willard Barnes Buell, and they had two sons. Her husband died in 1905. She wrote poems to the Northern Christian Advocate in Syracuse, NY. John Perry

Valeria A. Foster

Arranger of "BINGHAMTON" in African American Heritage Hymnal

Anonymous

Person Name: Anon. Author of "Some Mother's Child" in Hymns of the Christian Life. No. 3 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.

Charles Walker Ray

1832 - 1917 Person Name: C. W. R. Alterer of "The Child of a King" in Zion's Delight Rv Charles Walker Ray DD USA 1832-1917. Born at Otselic, NY, he became a Baptist minister. He was educated at Hamlton College, Clinton, NY. He earned his doctorate from Monongahela College, Jefferson, PA. That school closed in 1894. He pastored at North Stonington, CT, for a number of years. He also served at Plymouth, NY. He married Julia Tracy Sheffield, and they had a son, Arthur. He wrote a number of books and song books: “Grace Vernon Bussell, the heroine of western Australia” (1878); “Spicy breezes” (1883); “The day school crown” (1892); “The revival helper: a collection of songs for Christian work and worship” (1893); “Bright blossoms of song” (1895); “Zion’s delight” (1901); “The song of songs of the King and his bride-an interpretation” (1913); “The fallacies and vagaries of misinterpretation” (1914). He died at Philadelphia, PA. John Perry

May Agnew Stephens

1865 - 1935 Arranger of "[In country or village, in alley or street]" in Hymns of the Christian Life. No. 3 Born: 1865, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Died: March 19, 1935, Nyack, New York. Stephens joined the Salvation Army in New York’s 3 Corps in 1890. She helped edit The War Cry, and worked on the training home staff and in the Candidates Department. Around 1897, she began serving as song leader and pianist at the Gospel Tabernacle with Albert Simpson. Two years later, she helped found the Eighth Avenue Mission, and in 1902 married Harold Stephens (later pastor of the Parkdale Alliance Tabernacle in Toronto, Canada). For the next two and half decades she and her husband were traveling evangelists in America, Canada and Britain. Her works include: Missionary Messages in Song, circa 1910 www.hymntime.com/tch

John B. Sumner

1838 - 1913 Composer of "BINGHAMTON" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.)

H. T. Crossley

1850 - 1934 Person Name: H. T. C. Alterer of "A Child of the King" in Songs of Salvation Hugh Thomas Crossley was part of Canadian revival team, along with John Edwin Hunter. They were both Methodist ministers. Dianne Shapiro, from Revivals and Roller Rinks: religion, leisure and identity in late-nineteenth-century small-town Ontario by Lynn Sorrel Marks, University of Toronto Press, 1996

Martin W. Knapp

1853 - 1901 Person Name: Martin Wells Knapp Author of "Redeemed By The Blood" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: March 27, 1853, Albion, Michigan. Died: December 7, 1901, Cincinnati, Ohio, of typhoid fever. Buried: Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio. At age 17, Knapp began studies at a Methodist college in Albion, Michigan. He worked on the family farm in the summer, studying Greek and Latin at night, and attending classes in Albion in the winter. In 1877, the Methodist Michigan Conference assigned him a circuit. He went on to a career in ministry, founding the magazine God’s Revivalist in 1888; the International Holiness Union and Prayer League in 1897; and God’s Bible School (later known as God’s Bible School and College) in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1900. His works include: Christ Crowned Within, 1886 The Double Cure Out of Egypt into Canaan, or Lessons in Spiritual Geography Diary Letters; A Missionary Trip Through the West Indies and to South America The River of Death and Its Branches Pentecostal Preachers Revival Kindlings, 1890 Revival Tornadoes; or, Life and Labors of Rev. Joseph H. Weber (McDonald, Gill & Company, 1890) Impressions—How to Tell Whether They Are from Above or Below (Revivalist Publishing House; sixth edition, 1892) Lightning Bolts from Pentecostal Skies; or, Devices of the Devil Unmasked, 1898 Holiness Triumphant, or, Pearls from Patmos, 1900 Bible Songs of Salvation and Victory, with R. E. McNeill (Cincinnati, Ohio: M. W. Knapp, circa 1902) --www.hymntime.com/tch/