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Will H. Garey

Composer of "[My Saviour’s gently leading me]" in Crowning Day No. 3

Mattie Carlisle

Author of "My Saviour Leadeth Me" in Crowning Day No. 3

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[Gently, O my Savior, lead me]" in Coronation Hymns Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree ============= For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades. Bert Polman

Joseph D. Little

Composer of "[Gently lead me, O my Savior]" in Songs of Praise Late 19th Century

Mary A. Adams

Author of "Savior, Lead Me" in Songs of Praise

Kenneth Fulkerson

Composer of "[Lead me, O my Savior, lead me]" in Melodies of Love

M. Victor Staley

b. 1866 Person Name: Dr. M. Victor Staley Author of "Gently, O My Savior, Lead Me" in Coronation Hymns Staley, M. Victor. (near Omro, Wisconsin, 1866--?). Studied at Lawrence University, 1887-1892; University of Wisconsin (Madison), B.A., 1893; Yale University, Ph.D., ca.1895; admitted to bar, 1900. Practiced, Portland, Oregon. Teacher of Latin and Greek, Palo Alto, California; University of Washington, Seattle; Orchard Lake Military Academy and Louisiana State Normal School. See: Gabriel, Charles H. (1916). Singers and Their Songs. Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company. --Keith C. Clark, DNAH Archives