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J. R. Baxter

1887 - 1960 Person Name: J. R. Baxter, Jr. Arranger of "[Christ went a building to prepare]" in Calvary Songs Jesse Randall (Pap) Baxter, Jr. (1887-1960) Born: December 8, 1887, Lebanon, Alabama. Died: January 21, 1960. Baxter grew up in DeKalb County, Alabama. In 1926, he bought part of Virgil Stamps’ Gospel music firm, which became the Stamps-Baxter Music and Printing Company, one of the most successful Gospel music publishers of the early 20th Century. Baxter ran the company’s Chattanooga, Tennessee, office until Stamps’ death in 1940, then moved to Dallas, Texas, to run the main office. After Baxter’s death, his wife, Clarice, ran the business until she died; it was then sold to Zondervan. Baxter was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame in 1997. Lyrics-- After the Sunrise Farther Along God Shall Wipe Away All Tears (© 1940) He Bore It All I Have Peace in My Soul I Hold His Hand (© 1929) I Love My Savior, Too I Want to Help Some Weary Pilgrim I’m Living in Canaan Now Living Grace Praise the Lamb of God Something Happens Travel the Sunlit Way Try Jesus When He Blessed My Soul When We Meet to Part No More © Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

R. E. Winsett

1876 - 1952 Author of "Not Made With Hands" in Songs of the Kingdom Robert Emmett Winsett (January 15, 1876 — June 26, 1952 (aged 76) was an American composer and publisher of Gospel music. Winsett was born in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, and graduated from the Bowman Normal School of Music in 1899. He founded his own publishing company in 1903, and his first publication, Winsett's Favorite Songs, quickly became popular among the Baptist and Pentecostal churches of the American South. Pentecostal Power followed in 1907; that year Winsett completed postgraduate work at a conservatory. He married Birdie Harris in 1908, and had three sons and two daughters with her. He settled in Fort Smith, Arkansas, continuing to compose gospel songs, of which he would write over 1,000 in total. He became a minister in 1923, and was affiliated with the Church of God (Seventh Day). Birdie Harris died late in the 1920s, and shortly thereafter Winsett moved back to Tennessee. He founded a new company in Chattanooga, and published more shape note music books. He remarried, to Mary Ruth Edmonton, in 1930, and had three further children. Winsett's final publication, Best of All (1951), sold over 1 million copies, and in total his books sold over ten million copies. His song "Jesus Is Coming Soon" won a Dove Award for Gospel Song of the Year at the 1969 awards. He has been inducted into the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame. --www.wikipedia.org

John S. Brown

Arranger of "Not Made with Hands" in Songs of Praise and Salvation John S Brown USA. Thus far, John has evaded biographers. He may be Rev. John Stillman Brown of Kansas, but this is not verified. John Perry

Avanelle Dyer

1880 - 1976 Arranger of "[Christ went a building to prepare]" in The Cyber Hymnal Dyer, Miss Avanelle. This may be Addie Avanelle Dyer, born in Delaware, Ohio on November 4, 1880 to Rolla Dyer and Addie Belle Smith. Addie Avanelle "Nellie" Dyer married Lewis Robeson Akers (1881-1963) on July 6, 1905 and they had 4 children. Akers was a Methodist minister and served as president of Asbury College in Louisville from 1925 to 1933. Avanelle died on July 10, 1976 in Manatee County, Florida at the age of 95. She and her husband are buried at the Miami Memorial Park Cemetery in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Not Made With Hands was brought over to the Cooper book from the J. L. White book in 1992, where it appeared on page 517 with the note "Copyright 1900. Brown Bros. Used by per." --groups.google.com/forum/