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Mrs. C. H. Morris

1862 - 1929 Person Name: Leila Naylor Morris Meter: 10.8.10.8 with refrain Author of "Let Jesus Come Into Your Heart" in Baptist Hymnal 1991 Lelia (Mrs. C.H.) Morris (1862-1929) was born in Pennsville, Morgan County, Ohio. When her family moved to Malta on the Muskingum River she and her sister and mother had a millinery shop in McConnelsville. She and her husband Charles H. Morris were active in the Methodist Episcopal Church and at the camp meetings in Sebring and Mt. Vernon. She wrote hymns as she did her housework. Although she became blind at age 52 she continued to write hymns on a 28-foot long blackboard that her family had built for her. She is said to have written 1000 texts and many tunes including "Sweeter as the years go by." Mary Louise VanDyke

Nolan Williams

Person Name: Nolan Williams, Jr. b. 1969 Meter: 10.8.10.8 with refrain Author of "Here Am I" in African American Heritage Hymnal

William Farley Smith

1941 - 1997 Meter: 10.8.10.8 with refrain Adapter and Arranger of "SWING LOW" in The United Methodist Hymnal

James Chepponis

b. 1956 Person Name: James J. Chepponis, b. 1956C Meter: 10.8.10.8 with refrain Author of "With a Shepherd's Care" in Worship (4th ed.)

Henry P. Morton

Meter: 10.8.10.8 with refrain Composer of "[There are days so dark that I seek in vain]" in Timeless Truths

I. N. McHose

b. 1831 Meter: 10.8.10.8 with refrain Author of "O, the Great Love the Dear Saviour Has Shown" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 McHose, Isaac N. Born 1831/1832, Hellerstown, Pennsylvania. Some speculation on his identity. Co-editor with Kurzenknabe and Bentley on Gospel Trio of Sacred Song (1891). --Letters, family trees in DNAH Archives

Jessie Brown Pounds

1861 - 1921 Person Name: Jessie B. Pounds Meter: 10.8.10.8 with refrain Author of "The Touch of His Hand on Mine" in Timeless Truths Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis. A memorable phrase would come to her, she would write it down in her notebook. Maybe a couple months later she would write out the entire hymn. She is the author of nine books, about fifty librettos for cantatas and operettas and of nearly four hundred hymns. Her hymn "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" was sung at President McKinley's funeral. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

J. B. Coats

1901 - 1961 Person Name: James B. Coats Meter: 10.8.10.8 with refrain Author of "Where Could I Go?" in African American Heritage Hymnal J.B. Coats was born on April 6, 1901, in Summerland, Mississippi. He attended the schools of his area and was both a student and lover of music all his life...His formal education was continued with study at Mississippi Southern College and Louisiana State University. He also studied music with Julius Rishing, J.E. and Alvis O. Thomas and T.B. Mosley. When just a lad about fourteen, he began teaching music classes and conducting evangelistic singing. Mr. Coats was a teacher in public schools most of his life...He was the composer of many loved gospel songs with "Where Could I Go" haveing been printed and sung most widely. Others of his outstanding songs are "A Wonderful Place", "My Soul Shall Live On", "I'm Winging My Way Back Home", and "Tomorrow May Mean Goodbye". Many of his songs have been recorded by leading quartets and singers...Mr. Coats was associated with Stamps-Baxter Music Company and a lifetime staff writer for them...He joined the Baptist Church and served more than thirty years as a Deacon before answering the call to the ministry. He died on December 15, 1961. --doyouknowhowgodlovesyou.blogspot.com

A. H. Ackley

1887 - 1960 Person Name: A. H. A. Meter: 10.8.10.8 with refrain Author of "Take Up Thy Cross and Follow Me" in Timeless Truths Alfred Henry Ackley was born 21 January 1887 in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest son of Stanley Frank Ackley and the younger brother of B. D. Ackley. His father taught him music and he also studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary in Maryland and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1914. He served churches in Pennsylvania and California. He also worked with the Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver evangelist team and for Homer Rodeheaver's publishing company. He wrote around 1500 hymns. He died 3 July 1960 in Los Angeles. Dianne Shapiro (from ackleygenealogy.com by Ed Ackley and Allen C. Ackley)

Barney Elliott Warren

1867 - 1951 Person Name: B. E. W. Meter: 10.8.10.8 with refrain Author of "All in Jesus" in Timeless Truths Barney Elliott Warren was an American Christian hymnwriter and minister. See more in Wikipedia