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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Hymnal Number: d1 Author of "This wonderful song I ever shall sing" in Triumphant Hosannas Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Jennie Wilson

1857 - 1913 Hymnal Number: d24 Author of "Face to face in glory" in Triumphant Hosannas Wilson, Jennie Bain. (d. 3 September 1913). Obituaries available in the DNAH Archives. =============================== Jennie Bain Wilson, 1857-1913 Born: 1857, on a Farm Near South Whitley, Indiana. Died: Circa 1913. Afflicted with a spinal condition at age four, Wilson spent her life in a wheel chair. She never attended school, but was educated at home. She is said to have written over 2,200 texts. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Thoro Harris

1874 - 1955 Hymnal Number: d48 Author of "I'm living in sunshine today" in Triumphant Hosannas Born: March 31, 1874, Washington, DC. Died: March 27, 1955, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Buried: International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. After attending college in Battle Creek, Michigan, Harris produced his first hymnal in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois at the invitation of Peter Bilhorn, and in 1932, to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He composed and compiled a number of works, and was well known locally as he walked around with a canvas bag full of handbooks for sale. His works include: Light and Life Songs, with William Olmstead & William Kirkpatrick (Chicago, Illinois: S. K. J. Chesbro, 1904) Little Branches, with George J. Meyer & Howard E. Smith (Chicago, Illinois: Meyer & Brother, 1906) Best Temperance Songs (Chicago, Illinois: The Glad Tidings Publishing Company, 1913) (music editor) Hymns of Hope (Chicago, Illinois: Thoro Harris, undated, circa 1922) --www.hymntime.com/tch

Lizzie De Armond

1847 - 1936 Person Name: Lizzie DeArmond Hymnal Number: d101 Author of "Rally round the blessed Bible" in Triumphant Hosannas Lizzie De Armond was a prolific writer of children's hymns, recitations and exercises. When she was twelve years old her first poem was published in the Germantown, Pa. Telegraph, however, it was not until she was a widow with eight children to support that she started writing in earnest. She wrote articles, librettos, nature stories and other works, as well as hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Johnson Oatman, Jr.

1856 - 1922 Person Name: Johnson Oatman Hymnal Number: d121 Author of "All and in all" in Triumphant Hosannas Johnson Oatman, Jr., son of Johnson and Rachel Ann Oatman, was born near Medford, N. J., April 21, 1856. His father was an excellent singer, and it always delighted the son to sit by his side and hear him sing the songs of the church. Outside of the usual time spent in the public schools, Mr. Oatman received his education at Herbert's Academy, Princetown, N. J., and the New Jersey Collegiate Institute, Bordentown, N. J. At the age of nineteen he joined the M.E. Church, and a few years later he was granted a license to preach the Gospel, and still later he was regularly ordained by Bishop Merrill. However, Mr. Oatman only serves as a local preacher. For many years he was engaged with his father in the mercantile business at Lumberton, N. J., under the firm name of Johnson Oatman & Son. Since the death of his father, he has for the past fifteen years been in the life insurance business, having charge of the business of one of the great companies in Mt. Holly, N. J., where he resides. He has written over three thousand hymns, and no gospel song book is considered as being complete unless it contains some of his hymns. In 1878 he married Wilhelmina Reid, of Lumberton, N.J. and had three children, Rachel, Miriam, and Percy. Excerpted from Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers by Jacob Henry Hall; Fleming H. Revell, Co. 1914

Julia H. Johnston

1849 - 1919 Hymnal Number: d138 Author of "Victory through grace" in Triumphant Hosannas Julia Harriet Johnston, who was born on Jan. 21, 1849, at Salineville, OH, in Columbiana County. Her father was a minister and he mother was a poet. She began writing when she was nine years old but really started writing verse in high school. She lived in Peoria, Ill. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Haldor Lillenas

1885 - 1959 Hymnal Number: d174 Author of "Let your life for Jesus shine" in Triumphant Hosannas Rv Haldor Lillenas DMus Norway/USA 1885-1959. Born at Stord, near Bergen, Norway, his father sold their 15 acre farm in Norway and emigrated to the U.S., buying a farm in Colton, SD. After he built a sod house, the family (wife and three chldren) also came to SD in 1887. They moved to Astoria, Oregon in 1889, where Lillenas learned English and began writing song lyrics at an early age. In 1900 the family moved again to Roseville, MN, where he worked as a farm laborer and began attending a Lutheran high school at Hawick, MN. He sold a few songs at age 19. At age 21 he began writing more songs, encouraged by some earlier ones becoming popular (“He set me free” was one). His mother died in 1906 and his father returned to ND, but Lillenas decided to move back to Astoria, OR, to finish a chemical correspondence course he had been taking. There he found employment in a chemical factory. He started attending a Lutheran church, but one evening he heard the song, “Tell mother I’ll be there”, sung at a mission. It made him decide to commit his life to Christ. An elderly lady who worked there told him about Jesus, and he began attending the Peniel Mission, a holiness rescue mission in Astoria, OR. He started working at the mission himself. In 1907 he moved to Portland, OR, where he worked with the Peniel Mission there, the mission paying most of his expenses. He was appointed leader of the mission. He saw many there come to know Christ and felt called to the Lord’s work. He joined the First Church of the Nazarene in Portland. Soon he enrolled in a ministerial course of study by correspondence. Soon afterward, he joined a vocal group associated with the Salvation Army called the ‘Charioteers Brigade’, which held street meetings and revival services throught much of CA. As a result of generous donations made, and efforts by his pastor, A O Hendricks, he was able to attend Pacific Bible College (later renamed Pasadena College), Los Angeles, CA. He also found part-time work to help support himself. He was soon a music director at a local church, and was preaching and writing songs. He also studied voice at the Lyric School of Music in Los Angeles, CA. While at Deets, he met and married Bertha Mae Wilson, also on an evangelistic team. Both preached. She was a songwriter like he. They practiced music at her father’s house and found that their voices blended well. They had two children: Evangline, and Wendell. They eventually became elders in the Nazarene Church, and she eventually became an ordained minister as well. He also studied music at the Siegel-Myers School of Music Chicago, IL. He composed songs for cantatas, Christmas, Easter, and special day services. He also used several pseudonyms in their composition. He traveled as an evangelist, then he pastored several churches (1910-1924) at Lompoc, CA, then Redlands, CA, and later in Indianapolis, IN. While there, In 1924, he founded the Lillenas Music Company (bought by the Nazarene Publishing Company in 1930). His wife preached at their pastorate until he was able to get the company up and running. While they owned the company, they published more than 700,000 hymnals. He worked as an editor there (after selling his company) until his retirement in 1950, becoming an advisor for them until his death. Also that year Lillenas purchased a 500 acre rural estate in Miller County, MO, where they built an Ozark home called ‘Melody Lane’. Lillenas joined the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) in 1938. In 1941 he received an honorable doctorate degree from Olivet Nazarene College, Bourbonnais, IL. In 1945 Bertha died of cancer, and later that year Lillenas remarried to a Lola Dell, and they lived in Melody Lane until 1955, when they moved to Pasadena, CA, attending the Nazarene Church there. They also made three trips to Norway after his retirement, and he wrote three books during that time: “Modern gospel song stories (1952), “Down Melody Lane (an autobiography): (1953), “Motoring 11,000 miles through Norway-A guide for tourists” (1955). In 1955 they toured Israel and sponsored a Palestinian Greek Orthodox family he had met as immigrants to the US that included Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (born in 1944). After they arrived in Pasadena, the Sirhan family stayed with Lillenas for several months, after which the Sirhans moved to a home Lillenas rented and furnished to them. When Mary Sirhan’s husband abandoned her and her two sons and returned to Jordan, Lillenas ensured that they were able to remain in the US. S B Sirhan was the convicted killer of Robert Kennedy. Lillenas wrote some 4000 hymn lyrics, supplying some for evangelists. Four of his song books contain his hymns: “Special sacred songs” (1919), “New Sacred Songs”, “Strains of love”, and “Special sacred songs #2”. He died at Aspen, CO. He is buried at Kansas City, MO. He was an author, editor, compiler, composer, and contributor. He edited and compiled over 50 song books. John Perry

W. S. Pitts

1830 - 1918 Person Name: William S. Pitts Hymnal Number: d127 Author of "The little brown church" in Triumphant Hosannas William Savage Pitts MD USA 1830-1918. Born at Yates, NY, the son of Puritans, he was the 8th of nine children. He had musical ability from an early age, taking formal music lessons from a graduate of the Boston Handel & Hadyn Society. At age 19, he traveled with his family to Rock County, WI, where he worked as a rural music schoolteacher in Union, WI. He taught for several years, there and at singing schools, and for brass bands, composing much of their music. In 1857 he traveled to Fredericksburg, IA, to visit his fiancee, Ann Eliza Warren, a teacher. Along the way he stopped his horse-drawn wagon at Bradford, IA, to rest. He walked across a field and saw a picturesque wooded valley formed by the Cedar River. Viewing the spot, he envisioned a church building there. He couldn’’t get the image out of his mind. Returning home to WI, he wrote out the words to a poem about the envisioned scene, calling it “Church in the wildwood”, for his own sake. He was then at rest about it. In 1862, he was married in Union, WI, and he and his wife moved to Fredericksburg to be near her elderly parents. Upon returning to Iowa, Pitts stopped along the route at the same location he had five years before to see it again. He was surprised to see a little church being built, and being painted brown. He met with the builders and asked why it was being painted brown, finding out that it was the cheapest paint they could find.. money being tight. The church builders, learning about his poem written several years earlier, asked him to bring his church choir to the dedication and sing a dedicatory song. In 1863 he did so. This was the first time the song was sung in public. The Pitts remained at Fredersicksburg, IA, for 44 years and had five children: Nellie, Grace, Alice, William, and Kate. Pitts served as mayor of Fredericksburg for seven years, as school treasurer for 26 years, wrote a biographical local history, and was a Master Freemason. In 1865 Pitts moved to Chicago to enroll at Rush Medical College. While there, to pay expenses, he offered several songs he had written to a music publisher, who chose his song “Little brown church in the vale”, and he sold the rights to his song for $25. He completed medical school, graduating in 1868, but the song was largely forgotten for several decades. Pitts practiced medicine in Fredericksburg until 1906. His wife died in 1886, and he remarried to Martha Amelia Pierce Grannis in 1887. They moved to Clarion, IA, in 1906. She died in 1909. Pitts then moved to Brooklyn, NY, to be with his son, William, who was working for the U. S. War Department. Pitts joined Fredericksburg’s Baptist Church in 1871, then the Congregational Church in Clarion, IA, in 1906, and later the Dyker Heights Congregational Church in Brooklyn, NY, in 1909. He occasionally performed his most famous song. He died at Brooklyn, NY, but was buried in Fredericksburg, IA. John Perry

F. L. Eiland

1860 - 1909 Person Name: Franklin L. Eiland Hymnal Number: d115 Author of "The hand that can save" in Triumphant Hosannas Franklin L. Eiland was born in Noxubee county, Miss., March 25, 1860. He was reared on the farm and attended the old field school. The school house on the hill and the old Oaken Bucket, etc., etc., were objects of interest in his curriculum. He had traveled some before finally leaving home including a trip to Tx, but in 1882 he came to Tx to remain. November 13, 1884 he married Miss Mary E. Nisbett of Robertson county. She lived nine years. In 1894 he married Miss Ella May Kennedy of Van Zandt county. She lived only 10 days. October 21, 1896 he married Miss Minnie Jarushia Valentine of McLennan county. She still survives. They have one sweet little daughter, Mary Ella Oree. She is quite bright and is already starting music at the age of three. Little Elva Lynn came Sept. 16, 1901 and God took her Aug. 9, 1902. The Eilands have been farmers and professional men along many lines, but Prof. Eiland was the only one that ever embarked in the music business. He was inclined to music from a child and appropriated all the advantages in this line that came his way. Many things of minor importance happened along his life but in 1884 he fell into a meeting conducted by Maj. W. E. Penn, and the superior music rendered there awaked all his latent talent and set him on fire with a desire to make a musician. He at once began a musical career that has attained an abundant success. He soon began teaching and continuing to study to became a composer. He sought the association of those who could teach him and in this and other ways has enjoyed advantages of the best talent to be found. In 1893 he began publishing. From this, came in due time The Trio Music Co. now operated in Waco. Prof. E. is president of the company and editor in chief of the journal. He moved later to Myrtle Springs to secure the benefit of the wonderful waters of those springs. He is given great credit for good influence wielded for his church and community. From "The Southland", Vol. XII. No. 1, Waco Tx

Charles Edward Pollock

1853 - 1928 Hymnal Number: d139 Author of "Little sowers" in Triumphant Hosannas Charles Edward Pollock USA 1853-1928. Born at Newcastle, PA, he moved to Jefferson City, MO, when age 17. He was a cane maker for C W Allen. He also worked 20 years for the MO Pacific Railroad, as a depot clerk and later as Assistant Roadmaster. He was a musician and prolific songwriter, composing 5000+ songs, mostly used in Sunday school settings and church settings. He took little remuneration for his compositions, preferring they be freely used. He produced three songbooks: “Praises”, “Beauty of praise”, and “Waves of melody”. In 1886 he married Martha (Mattie) Jane Harris, and they had three children: Robert, Edward, and a daughter. He died in Merriam, KS. John Perry ================= Pollock, Charles Edward. (Jefferson City, Missouri, 1853-1924). Records of Jefferson City indicate the following: 1897 clerk at depot; residence at 106 Broadway (with Mildred Pollock) 1904-1905 cane maker for C. W. Allen 1908-1909 musician; residence at 106 Broadway (with wife Matty) 1912-1913 residence at St. Louis Road, east city limits --Wilmer Swope, DNAH Archives Note: not to be confused with Charles Edward Pollock (c.1871-1924).

James W. Gaines

1880 - 1937 Hymnal Number: d27 Author of "O spread the blessed gospel story" in Triumphant Hosannas Born: January 23, 1881, Hiram, Kaufman County, Texas. Died: June 3, 1937, Oakville, Tennessee. Buried: Edmondson Cemetery, Southaven, Mississippi. In 1900, Gaines was living in Kauffman, Texas. He worked with the Trio and/or Quartet Music Companies in Waco, Texas, and married Laurel Life around 1904. Their daughter Mia was born in Texas around 1906, and their son Charles Life Gaines in Missouri around 1907. The family moved to Tennessee by World War I, when Gaines was drafted for military service. After the war, he ran a music publishing company in Memphis, Tennessee. His works include: The Gospel Messenger (Memphis, Tennessee: J. W. Gaines Music Company, 1931) Revival Tidings (Memphis, Tennessee: Gaines Music Company, 1932) --www.hymntime.com/tch/

J. W. Acuff

1864 - 1937 Person Name: James Warren Acuff Hymnal Number: d15 Author of "The joy of life eternal" in Triumphant Hosannas Born: January 4, 1864, Freestone County, Texas. Died: August 1, 1937, Georgetown, Texas. Buried: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Georgetown, Texas. James was a well known singer and song writer among the Churches of Christ in Texas. He wrote several popular Gospel songs, often led the singing for protracted meetings, and helped compile hymnals for the Firm Foundation Company of Austin. His career as a singer and song writer spanned nearly 50 years. http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/a/c/u/acuff_jw.htm

B. B. Edmiaston

1881 - 1955 Hymnal Number: d4 Author of "Take it to the Lord" in Triumphant Hosannas Benard Bates Edmiaston Born: July 16, 1881, Bennetts, Baxter County, Arkansas. Died: December 2, 1964, Bronte, Texas. Buried: Fairview Cemetery, Bronte, Texas. Bernard was the son of David W. Edmiaston and Georgia Ann Fluty, and husband of Ella Allen. He studied music under Rufus Turner, Franklin Eiland, W. H. Lawson, Berry McGee, Emmett Dean, G. W. Fields, John Herbert, and many others, and taught singing schools for at least 38 years. He wrote and published songs through the Trio Music Company, Waco, Texas, and was director of the Southern Development Normal School of Music in Waco. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Emmett S. Dean

1876 - 1951 Editor of "" in Triumphant Hosannas Born: June 29, 1876, Conecuh County, Alabama. Died: October 8, 1951, Waco, Texas. Buried: Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, Texas. A Methodist, Dean taught singing schools for 40 years, wrote some 500 songs, and for four years headed the Trio Music Company. With Franklin Eiland and Homer Elliott, he founded the Southern Development Normal Music School in Waco, Texas. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Stella May Thompson

Hymnal Number: d100 Author of "Prepare for eternity never delay" in Triumphant Hosannas

Thomas Franklin Johnson

Hymnal Number: d155 Author of "My home, blessed home, which my Lord prepares" in Triumphant Hosannas

F. J. Berry

Hymnal Number: d12 Author of "What would you give in exchange" in Triumphant Hosannas Floyd J. Berry

Katharyn Bacon

1884 - 1944 Hymnal Number: d148 Author of "Soldiers of the King" in Triumphant Hosannas Katharyn Bacon was born in 1884 and lived in the hills of Tennessee. She liked books, flowers, garden and being close to nature. She was most likely married to George W. Bacon since a lot of her hymns appear in hymnals he edited. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Samuel E. Reed

1879 - 1959 Person Name: S. E. Reed Hymnal Number: d90 Author of "In Gehsemane alone" in Triumphant Hosannas

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Arthur A. Westbrook

1887 - 1965 Hymnal Number: d43 Author of "He's my Friend" in Triumphant Hosannas Arthur Alan Westbrook was born in 1887 in Arkansas. He was a singer, teacher principal, Post Master General, and editor of a local newspaper in McCurtain County. He loved music and wrote many hymns. He was active in his church and touched many lives in his community. He died in Idabel, Oklahoma in 1965. Dianne Shapiro, from grand daughter Charley Brook Ayers, from comment in Hymn Studies Blog (https://hymnstudiesblog.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/quotwhen-he-comes-in-glory-by-and-byquot/) accessed 8/2/2018)

H. W. Elliott

1865 - 1930 Person Name: H. W. Elliot Hymnal Number: d29 Author of "Let in the sunlight" in Triumphant Hosannas Hugh Wilson Elliott, associate founder of The Trio Company, Waco, Texas

R. L. Powell

1888 - 1933 Hymnal Number: d60 Author of "O bless his holy name" in Triumphant Hosannas Robert Lawrence Powell known as "Richard" born in Texas, died in Texas. Dianne Shapiro, from Find a Grave website (accessed 6/20/2022)

Walter E. Edmiaston

1887 - 1982 Hymnal Number: d31 Author of "Christ is calling, still he's calling" in Triumphant Hosannas Born: March 3, 1887, Baxter, Arkansas. Died: February 24, 1982, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Buried: Sunnylane Cemetery, Del City, Oklahoma. --www.hymntime.com/tch

Carrie Moody

Hymnal Number: d94 Author of "I am trusting him" in Triumphant Hosannas

A. Bunyan Little

1873 - 1955 Hymnal Number: d61 Author of "I've surrended all to Jesus" in Triumphant Hosannas Born: 1873, Cleveland, Arkansas. Died: 1955, Waco, Texas. Little was the son of Thomas Bunyon Little and Nancy Adeline Tolson, and husband to Willie Maud Little. His works include: Sacred Chimes: A Book of New and Old Hymns and Tunes, with John C. F. Kyger (Waco, Texas: Kyger Music, 1900) http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/l/i/t/little_ab.htm

J. H. Carr

1892 - 1976 Hymnal Number: d70 Author of "Beyond the tide, the rolling tide" in Triumphant Hosannas James H. Carr, 1892-1976 The Music of Bill Monroe by neil V. Rosenberg and Charles K. Wolfe, University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 2007

B. B. Bateman

1881 - 1946 Hymnal Number: d20 Author of "Make Jesus yours, lost soul, today" in Triumphant Hosannas Berty Burrow Bateman, sister of G. M. Bateman

J. H. Alcon

Hymnal Number: d47 Author of "Over on the glory shore" in Triumphant Hosannas

Curtis J. Williams

Person Name: C. J. Williams Hymnal Number: d37 Author of "I am pressing on and on" in Triumphant Hosannas

Woodie W. Smith

1877 - 1958 Hymnal Number: d14 Author of "Carry the message of Jesus Over the land and the sea" in Triumphant Hosannas Woodie Washington Smith born in Alabama, died in Oklahoma Dianne Shapiro, from Find a Grave website (accessed 6/20/2022)

Jennie Wright

Hymnal Number: d50 Author of "I will work, bravely work" in Triumphant Hosannas

E. Greer Floyd

1849 - 1934 Hymnal Number: d166 Author of "Keep singing as you go" in Triumphant Hosannas Eugenia Greer Floyd - Born in Union Co., SC, the daughter of Spencer Greer and Adeline Jefferies. She married John W. Floyd (1847-1901)

A. D. Wall

Hymnal Number: d54 Author of "Mother's way" in Triumphant Hosannas

Milton Garner

Hymnal Number: d150 Author of "A wonderful Savior" in Triumphant Hosannas

A. F. Page

Hymnal Number: d144 Author of "Praise his name" in Triumphant Hosannas

Pete Fagan

Hymnal Number: d99 Author of "Soon I shall anchor on heaven's bright shore" in Triumphant Hosannas

W. A. Stem

Hymnal Number: d120 Author of "I'll praise his name, yes, praise his name" in Triumphant Hosannas

Clarence A. Trull

Hymnal Number: d125 Author of "Only One who can save the soul" in Triumphant Hosannas

A. F. Tomlin

Hymnal Number: d172 Author of "Won't you come home, sinner" in Triumphant Hosannas

Herman Hunt

Hymnal Number: d145 Author of "We shall have a home in glory" in Triumphant Hosannas

Silas L. Cox

1881 - 1964 Hymnal Number: d73 Author of "Live a life for Jesus" in Triumphant Hosannas Silas Lee Cox born in Arkansas, died in Oklahoma. Dianne Shapiro, from Find a Grave website (accessed 6/20/2022)