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J. O. Barnhart

Meter: 9.8.9.8 with refrain Author of "Be Ready Today"

1820 - 1867 Person Name: W. Baumgartner Meter: 9.8.9.8 with refrain Composer of "O DASS ICH TAUSEND ZUNGEN HÄTTE" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 Wilhelm Baumgartner was born in Rorshach, Switzerland, and died in Zurich. He was mainly a choral conductor, leading several choirs in Zurich, but was also a pianist, composer, educator and choral conductor. He was a friend of Richard Wagner and Gottfried Keller. Dianne Shapiro, from Choral Music in the Nineteenth Century by Nick Strimple (New York: Amadeus Press, 2008) and "Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz" accessed online 1-30-2019

John L. Bell

b. 1949 Person Name: John L. Bell (b. 1949) Meter: 9.8.9.8 with refrain Author (English version) of "So much wrong and so much injustice" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal: "I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)] That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications. Emily Brink

P. P. Bilhorn

1865 - 1936 Meter: 9.8.9.8 with refrain Composer of "[My soul crieth out for the Spirit]" Pseudonyms: W. Ferris Britcher, Irene Durfee; C. Ferris Holden, P. H. Roblin (a anagram of his name) ================ Peter Philip Bilhorn was born, in Mendota, IL. His father died in the Civil War 3 months before he was born. His early life was not easy. At age 8, he had to leave school to help support the family. At age 15, living in Chicago, he had a great singing voice and sang in German beer gardens there. At this time, he and his brother also formed the Eureka Wagon & Carriage Works in Chicago, IL. At 18 Peter became involved in gospel music, studying under George F. Root and George C. Stebbins. He traveled to the Dakotas and spent some time sharing the gospel with cowboys there. He traveled extensively with D. L. Moody, and was Billy Sunday's song leader on evangelistic endeavors. His evangelistic work took him into all the states of the Union, Great Britain, and other foreign countries. In London he conducted a 4000 voice choir in the Crystal Palace, and Queen Victoria invited him to sing in Buckinghm Palace. He wrote some 2000 gospel songs in his lifetime. He also invented a folding portable telescoping pump organ, weighing 16 lbs. It could be set up in about a minute. He used it at revivals in the late 19th century. He founded the Bilhorn Folding Organ Company in Chicago. IL, and his organ was so popular it was sold all over the world. He edited 10 hymnals and published 11 gospel songbooks. He died in Los Angeles, CA, in 1936. John Perry

A. P. Bland

Person Name: A. P. Bland, 1876-1938 Meter: 9.8.9.8 with refrain Composer of "[We read of a place that's called heaven]" in Sacred Songs of the Church

Luis Bojos

b. 1937 Person Name: Luis Bojos, b. 1937 Meter: 9.8.9.8 with refrain Author of "Alleluia! Christ Is Arisen (¡Aleluya! Cristo resucitó )" in Evangelical Lutheran Worship

Ballington Booth

1857 - 1940 Person Name: Ballington Booth, 1855-1940 Meter: 9.8.9.8 with refrain Author of "The Cross that He Gave May Be Heavy" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 Rv Ballington Booth United Kingdom 1857-1940 Born in Brighouse, England, the 2nd son of William Booth and Catherine Booth, founders of the Salvation Army, he became a Christian minister. In his teens he began preaching, singing and playing his concertina at open-air meetings sponsored by the Salvation Army. He became a Colonel in that organization at 23 and was positioned as a training officer. He later moved to Australia, followed by the U.S., and then Canada. He married Maud Charlesworth in 1886. Together they were assigned to the U.S., as the Salvation Army was becoming a world-wide organization. They became American citizens the following year, During the 1890s depression the Booths established shelters for homeless men. Although they played a great part in organizing and structuring the Salvation Army in America, Ballington disagreed with his brother, Bramwell, Chielf of Staff, and his father about being reassigned to areas outside the U.S., and he and his wife stayed in the U.S., establishing a new organization in 1896, Volunteers of America. It was not intended to interfere or take from the coffers of the Salvation Army, headquartered in England by his parents, but two-thirds of the volunteers left the Salvation Army and joined VOA. Many of the Salvation Army supporters also went with VOA. He became its first General (1896-1940). On his demise, his wife, Maud, assumed his roll as VOA General. John Perry

Johann Jacob Bossert

1721 - 1789 Person Name: Johann Jacob Bossert, 1721-1789 Meter: 9.8.9.8 with refrain Author of "O Might the Sorrowing Face of Jesus" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4

Christian Ludwig Braun

1746 - 1777 Person Name: Christian Ludwig Braun, 1746-1777 Meter: 9.8.9.8 with refrain Author of "O Might the Sorrowing Face of Jesus" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4

Mrs. A. S. Bridgewater

1873 - 1957 Person Name: Mrs. A. S. Bridgewater, 1873-c. 1957 Meter: 9.8.9.8 with refrain Author of "How Beautiful Heaven Must Be" in Sacred Songs of the Church Bridgewater, Cordie. (North Carolina, ca.1873-ca.1957). Baptist. According to J. Wiegand, was living in Alabama (age 36) at the time of the 1910 census. Wife of A. Samuel Bridgewater. Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives