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Leland Bryant Ross

b. 1954 Person Name: Liland Brajant Ros' Translator of "For, longe for, en Judea land'" in TTT-Himnaro Cigneta American Baptist layman. Amateur hymnologist and polyglot. Translator of many hymns into, and author of a few in, Esperanto, as well as some hymns in English. 13 texts (incl. 3 original) in Adoru, plus two in Espero Katolika's supplement. Edited the largest online Esperanto hymnal, TTT-Himnaro Cigneta, now accessible via the Wayback Machine at archive.org, (https://web.archive.org/web/20091021113553/http://geocities.com/cigneto/pretaj.html) as well as in large part here on Hymnary.org. Lives near Seattle.

J. Macfarlane

1833 - 1892 Person Name: John M. Macfarlane Author of "Far, Far Away on Judea's Plains" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: October 11, 1833, Stirling, Scotland. Died: June 4, 1892, St. George, Utah (of congestive heart failure caused by diabetes). Buried: St. George, Utah. Macfarlane emigrated to America on February 11, 1852, on the ship Ellen Marie. He settled in St. George, Utah, where he was a surveyor, attorney, judge, composer, teacher and farmer. http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/c/macfarlane_jm.htm ================== http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Menzies_Macfarlane

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