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A. Williams
1731 - 1776 Person Name: Aaron Williams, 1734-76 Composer of "ST. THOMAS" in Songs for the Chapel Aaron Williams (b. London, England, 1731; d. London, 1776) was a singing teacher, music engraver, and clerk at the Scottish Church, London Wall. He published various church music collections, some intended for rural church choirs. Representative of his compilations are The Universal Psalmodist (1763)— published in the United States as The American Harmony (1769)—The Royal Harmony (1766), The New Universal Psalmodist (1770), and Psalmody in Miniature (1778). His Harmonia Coelestis (1775) included anthems by noted composers.
Bert Polman
A. Williams
William Tans'ur
1699 - 1783 Person Name: William Tansur (1699-1774) Composer of "ST. THOMAS" in Carmina Sanctorum William Tansur, b. about 1700, Dunchurch of Barnes; d. 1783, St. Neots Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908
Also known as Tansur; Tanzer; le Tansur
William Tans'ur
Thomas C. Upham
1799 - 1872 Person Name: Rev. Thomas Cogswell Upham (1799-1872) Author of "Happy the man, who knows" in Carmina Sanctorum Upham, Thomas Cogswell, D.D., was born at Durfield, New Haven, Jan. 30,1799, and educated at Dartmouth College (1818), and at Andover (1821). Having entered the Congregational Ministry he became Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy at Bowdon College, in 1825, and retained the same to 1867. He died at New York, April 2, 1872. His publications were numerous and included Mental Philosophy (which was long and widely used); American Cottage Life; a volume of Poems, 1852, &c. Five of his hymns are given, with accompanying dates, in Hymns and Songs of Praise, &c, N. Y., 1874, as follows:—
1. Fear not, poor weary one. Help in Sorrow (1872).
2. Happy the man who knows. Obedience (1872).
3. 0 Thou great Ruler of the sky. Morning (1872).
4. 0 Thou great Teacher from the skies. Following Christ (1872).
5. 'Tis thus in solitude I roam. Omnipresence (1853).
These hymns are limited in their use. In 1847 Upham published the Life and Religious Opinions and Experiences of Madam de la Mothe Guyon. . . Two vols., N. Y. In this work the anonymous translations from Madam Guyon's hymns are found, viz.,
(1) “By sufferings only can we know";
(2) "I would love Thee, God and Father";
(3) "'Tis not [by] the skill of human art." There are also additional translations of two of her hymns in the same work.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Thomas C. Upham
Herbert Stanley Oakeley
1830 - 1903 Person Name: Herbert S. Oakeley Composer of "DOMINICA" in Christian Science Hymnal (Rev. and enl.)
Herbert Stanley Oakeley
J. E. Sweetser
1817 - 1873 Person Name: Joseph E. Sweetser Composer of "GREENWOOD" in The Sanctuary Hymnal, published by Order of the General Conference of the United Brethren in Christ
J. E. Sweetser
Jonathan C. Woodman
1813 - 1894 Person Name: J. C. Woodman Composer of "STATE STREET" in Hymns of the Faith with Psalms
Jonathan C. Woodman
