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Daniel Iverson

1890 - 1977 Author (st. 1) of "Spirit of the Living God" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Daniel Iverson (b. Brunswick, GA, 1890; d. Asheville, NC, 1977) wrote the first stanza and tune of this hymn after hearing a sermon on the Holy Spirit during an evangelism crusade by the George Stephens Evangelistic Team in Orlando, Florida, 1926. The hymn was sung at the crusade and then printed in leaflets for use at other services. Published anonymously in Robert H. Coleman's Revival Songs (1929) with alterations in the tune, this short hymn gained much popularity by the middle of the century. Since the 1960s it has again been properly credited to Iverson. Iverson studied at the University of Georgia, Moody Bible Institute, Columbia Theological Seminary, and the University of South Carolina. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1914, he served congregations in Georgia and in North and South Carolina. In 1927 he founded the Shenandoah Presbyterian Church in Miami, Florida, and served there until his retirement in 1951. An evangelist as well as a preacher, Iverson planted seven new congregations during his ministry in Miami. --www.hymnary.org/hymn/PsH/424

David Iverson

Author of "求永生真神的靈，來復興我， (Spirit of the Living God)" in 生命聖詩 - Hymns of Life, 1986

P. E. Iverson

Author of "Christ is coming again"

Winifred Iverson

Author of "Never a Day Nears its Sunset"

Charles E. Ives

1874 - 1954 Composer of "SERENITY" in The United Methodist Hymnal Charles Ives Born: 1874, Died: 1954 Born in Danbury, Connecticut on 20 October 1874, Charles Ives pursued what is perhaps one of the most extraordinary and paradoxical careers in American music history. Businessman by day and composer by night, Ives's vast output has gradually brought him recognition as the most original and significant American composer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, Ives sought a highly personalized musical expression through the most innovative and radical technical means possible. A fascination with bi-tonal forms, polyrhythms, and quotation was nurtured by his father who Ives would later acknowledge as the primary creative influence on his musical style. Studies at Yale with Horatio Parker guided an expert control overlarge-scale forms. Ironically, much of Ives's work would not be heard until his virtual retirement from music and business in 1930 due to severe health problems. The conductor Nicolas Slonimsky, music critic Henry Bellamann, pianist John Kirkpatrick (who performed the Concord Sonata at its triumphant premiere in New York in 1939), and the composer Lou Harrison (who conducted the premiere of the Symphony No. 3) played a key role in introducing Ives's music to a wider audience. Henry Cowell was perhaps the most significant figure in fostering public and critical attention for Ives's music, publishing several of the composer's works in his New Music Quarterly. In 1947, Ives was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his Symphony No. 3, according him a much deserved modicum of international renown. Soon after, his works were taken up and championed by such leading conductors as Leonard Bernstein and, at his death in 1954, he had witnessed a rise from obscurity to a position of unsurpassed eminence among the world's leading performers and musical institutions. --www.schirmer.com

Charles Taylor Ives

1864 - 1948 Person Name: Charles Taylor Ives, 1864-1948 Composer of "GENTLENESS" in AGO Founders Hymnal A Founder of the American Guild of Organists, Charles Taylor Ives was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1864, and served at various times as organist of Emmanuel Baptist Church (Brooklyn), First Congregational Church (Montclair, NJ), the Baptist Temple (Brooklyn), and Classon Avenue Presbyterian Church (also in Brooklyn). He co-edited two hymnals with R. Huntington Woodman. He served as national treasurer of the AGO, 1901-09, and died in Montclair, NJ on July 1, 1948. (source: AGO Founders Hymnal, p. 99) As far as has been found, he was not, or at least not closely, related to his more famous near-contemporary, Charles Edward Ives, 1874-1954.