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Person Name: Anon. Author of "Just a Closer Walk With Thee" in Songs of Spring In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

Johnson Oatman, Jr.

1856 - 1922 Hymnal Number: 7 Author of "No, Not One" in Songs of Spring Johnson Oatman, Jr., son of Johnson and Rachel Ann Oatman, was born near Medford, N. J., April 21, 1856. His father was an excellent singer, and it always delighted the son to sit by his side and hear him sing the songs of the church. Outside of the usual time spent in the public schools, Mr. Oatman received his education at Herbert's Academy, Princetown, N. J., and the New Jersey Collegiate Institute, Bordentown, N. J. At the age of nineteen he joined the M.E. Church, and a few years later he was granted a license to preach the Gospel, and still later he was regularly ordained by Bishop Merrill. However, Mr. Oatman only serves as a local preacher. For many years he was engaged with his father in the mercantile business at Lumberton, N. J., under the firm name of Johnson Oatman & Son. Since the death of his father, he has for the past fifteen years been in the life insurance business, having charge of the business of one of the great companies in Mt. Holly, N. J., where he resides. He has written over three thousand hymns, and no gospel song book is considered as being complete unless it contains some of his hymns. In 1878 he married Wilhelmina Reid, of Lumberton, N.J. and had three children, Rachel, Miriam, and Percy. Excerpted from Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers by Jacob Henry Hall; Fleming H. Revell, Co. 1914

R. E. Winsett

1876 - 1952 Arranger of "[I am weak but Thou art strong]" in Songs of Spring 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

S. Baring-Gould

1834 - 1924 Person Name: Sabine Baring-Gould Hymnal Number: 53 Author of "Now the Day is Over" in Songs of Spring Baring-Gould, Sabine, M.A., eldest son of Mr. Edward Baring-Gould, of Lew Trenchard, Devon, b. at Exeter, Jan. 28, 1834, and educated at Clare College, Cambridge, B.A. 1857, M.A. 1860. Taking Holy Orders in 1864, he held the curacy of Horbury, near Wakefield, until 1867, when he was preferred to the incumbency of Dalton, Yorks. In 1871 he became rector of East Mersea, Essex, and in 1881 rector of Lew Trenchard, Devon. His works are numerous, the most important of which are, Lives of the Saints, 15 vols., 1872-77; Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, 2 series, 1866-68; The Origin and Development of Religious Belief, 2 vols., 1869-1870; and various volumes of sermons. His hymns, original and translated, appeared in the Church Times; Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1868 and 1875; The People's Hymnal, 1867, and other collections, the most popular being "Onward, Christian soldiers," "Daily, daily sing the praises," the translation "Through the night of doubt and sorrow," and the exquisite Easter hymn, "On the Resurrection Morning." His latest effort in hymnology is the publication of original Church Songs, 1884, of which two series have been already issued. In the Sacristy for Nov. 1871, he also contributed nine carols to an article on "The Noels and Carols of French Flanders.” These have been partially transferred to Chope's and Staniforth's Carol Books, and also to his Church Songs. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================== Baring-Gould, S., p. 114, i. Other hymns in common use are:— 1. Forward! said the Prophet. Processional. Appeared in the New Mitre Hymnal, 1874. 2. My Lord, in glory reigning. Christ in Glory. In Mrs. Brock's Children's Hymn Book, 1881. 3. Now severed is Jordan. Processional. Appeared in the S. Mary, Aberdeen, Hymnal, 1866, the People's Hymnal, 1867, &c. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Albert E. Brumley

1905 - 1977 Person Name: A. E. B. Hymnal Number: 45 Author of "Blessed Jesus Loves You Too" in Songs of Spring Born: October 29, 1905, near Spiro, Oklahoma. Died: November 15, 1977, Springfield, Missouri. Buried: Fox Cemetery, Powell, Missouri. Brumley attended the Hartford Musical Institute in Hartford, Arkansas, and sang with the Hartford Quartet. He went on to teach at singing schools in the Ozarks, and lived most of his life in Powell, Missouri. He worked for 34 years a staff writer for the Hartford and Stamps/Baxter publishing companies, then founded the Albert E. Brumley & Sons Music Company and Country Gentlemen Music, and bought the Hartford Music Company. He wrote over 800 Gospel and other songs during his life; the Country Song Writers Hall of Fame inducted him in 1970. © The Cyber Hymnal™. Used by permission. (www.hymntime.com)

E. R. Latta

1839 - 1915 Hymnal Number: 35 Author of "Saved by Grace" in Songs of Spring Rv Eden Reeder Latta USA 1839-1915. Born at Haw Patch, IN, the son of a Methodist minister, (also a boyhood friend of hymn writer Willam A Ogden) he became a school teacher. During the American Civil War he preached for the Manchester Methodist Church and other congregations (possibly as a circuit rider filling empty pulpits). In 1863 he married Mary Elizabeth Wright, and they had five children: Arthur, Robert, Jennie, two others. He taught for the public schools of Manchester, and later Colesburg, IA. He moved to Guttenberg, IA, in the 1890s, and continued writing song lyrics for several major gospel composers, including William Ogden, James McGranahan, James Fillmore, and Edmund Lorenz. He wrote 1600+ songs and hymns, many being widely popular in his day. His older brother, William, composed hymn tunes. He died at Guttenbert, IA. John Perry

Luther G. Presley

1887 - 1974 Person Name: L. G. P. Hymnal Number: 27 Author of "God's Wonderful Book Divine" in Songs of Spring Luther G. Presley (March 6, 1887 – December 6, 1974) was a songwriter, musician, and composer, who is best-known for writing the lyrics to the gospel song "When the Saints Go Marching In". Luther G. Presley was born on Beckett Mountain in Faulkner County, Arkansas on March 6, 1887. He studied music beginning at the age of 14, where he excelled. He soon became choir director. He wrote his first song, "Gladly Sing," when he was 17. He furthered his study in singing and music, under renowned teachers. Work Luther Presley wrote the lyrics for the gospel spiritual "When the Saints Go Marching In", in 1937, while Virgil O. Stamps composed the music and melody to the famous work. Luther Presley was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame in 2008. --wikipedia.org

J. B. Coats

1901 - 1961 Hymnal Number: 55 Composer of "[One bleak day I heard God say]" in Songs of Spring J.B. Coats was born on April 6, 1901, in Summerland, Mississippi. He attended the schools of his area and was both a student and lover of music all his life...His formal education was continued with study at Mississippi Southern College and Louisiana State University. He also studied music with Julius Rishing, J.E. and Alvis O. Thomas and T.B. Mosley. When just a lad about fourteen, he began teaching music classes and conducting evangelistic singing. Mr. Coats was a teacher in public schools most of his life...He was the composer of many loved gospel songs with "Where Could I Go" haveing been printed and sung most widely. Others of his outstanding songs are "A Wonderful Place", "My Soul Shall Live On", "I'm Winging My Way Back Home", and "Tomorrow May Mean Goodbye". Many of his songs have been recorded by leading quartets and singers...Mr. Coats was associated with Stamps-Baxter Music Company and a lifetime staff writer for them...He joined the Baptist Church and served more than thirty years as a Deacon before answering the call to the ministry. He died on December 15, 1961. --doyouknowhowgodlovesyou.blogspot.com

E. M. Bartlett

1885 - 1941 Person Name: E. M. B. Hymnal Number: 1a Author of "Sometime You Will Pray" in Songs of Spring E. M. Bartlett was born December 24, 1883 in Waynesville, Missouri. His family later moved to Sebastian County, Arkansas. Bartlett received training as a music teacher and was a leader in developing Southern gospel music. He was employed by Central Music Company, a publisher of shape note singing books based in Hartford, which was owned by David Moore and Will H. Ramsey. Bartlett persuaded Moore and John A. McClung to partner with him to form Hartford Music Company. In 1921, Bartlett established the Hartford Music Institute, a shape note school. He provided opportunities for many songwriters and musicians in gospel music, including Albert E. Brumley. In 1939 he suffered a stroke and afterwards wrote "Victory in Jesus." Dianne Shapiro, from "The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture" http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2660 and "Gospel Music Hall of Fame" website: http://www.gmahalloffame.org/speaker-lineup/e-m-bartlett-sr/ (accessed 1-24-2018)

James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Hymnal Number: 8 Author of "In Yonder Home" in Songs of Spring Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Alfred Barratt

1879 - 1968 Person Name: Dr. Alfred Barratt Hymnal Number: 13 Author of "In That Beautiful Eden of Prayer" in Songs of Spring Barratt, Alfred. (New Springs, Wigan, Lancashire, England, October 25, 1879--December, 1968). Coming to the United States as a young man, he studied at Gordon College, Massachusetts, and Newton Theological Seminary, Mass. He was ordained in December, 1913, by the Baptists in Connecticut, then by the Wheeling WV Presbytery, Presbyterian Church in the USA, in 1924. He was pastor of Dallas, West Virginia, then of a series of churches in the Presbytery of Clarion, Pennsylvania. In 1937 he was awarded the Doctor of Literature degree by Bob Jones College. On November 26, 1962, he wrote the undersigned: "For 39 long years I have labored hard and steady writing sermons, children's story sermons, and hymns. Up to the present day I have written 4,477 hymns. 80 percent of my sermons are published in books and magazines." --William J. Reynolds, DNAH Archives

Mosie Lister

1921 - 2015 Person Name: M. L. Hymnal Number: 14 Author of "I'm Glad the Savior Came" in Songs of Spring

J. R. Baxter

1887 - 1960 Person Name: J. R. Baxter, Jr. Hymnal Number: 39 Author of "Praise His Name" in Songs of Spring 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)

Stamps Baxter Music and Printing Co.

Person Name: Stamps Baxter Music & Printing Co. Publisher of "" in Songs of Spring

J. M. Henson

1887 - 1972 Person Name: J. M. H. Hymnal Number: 23 Author of "Stay By the Cross" in Songs of Spring

Cleavant Derricks

1910 - 1977 Person Name: C. D. Hymnal Number: 5 Author of "There's Be Light in the Valley for Me" in Songs of Spring

W. Oliver Cooper

1885 - 1963 Hymnal Number: 61 Author of "Looking for a City" in Songs of Spring Use pseudonym Oscar J. Schwab

Marvin P. Dalton

1906 - 1987 Hymnal Number: 61 Composer of "[Here among the shadows in a lonely land]" in Songs of Spring Marvin Price Dalton born in Arkansas, died in Oklahoma Dianne Shapiro, from Find a Grave website (accessed 6/20/2022)

Marion W. Easterling

1910 - 1989 Hymnal Number: 75 Composer of "[If you are burdened, weary and oppressed]" in Songs of Spring Born: March 12, 1910, Clanton, Alabama. Died: December 10, 1989, Birmingham, Alabama. Buried: Martin Memorial Cemetery, Clanton, Alabama. Marion W. Easterling, composed over 300 southern gospel songs. He received his music education in various singing schools, being taught by Ocie Lee DeVaughan, Dad Speer and others. In 1938, he was the youngest composer to sign a five year contract with the Stamps-Baxter Publishing Company. He has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for his long career as the programmer for the WKLF Radio stations's gospel program "America's Favorites". The program began in December 1947 and continued for 39 years, during which time, he broadcast over 20,000 shows. --www.findagrave.com/

Grady L. Baker

Person Name: G. L. Baker Hymnal Number: 7 Arranger of "[There's not a friend like the lowly Jesus]" in Songs of Spring

George Thomas Speer

1891 - 1966 Person Name: G. T. S. Hymnal Number: 62 Author of "Come On" in Songs of Spring

V. O. Fossett

1904 - 1964 Hymnal Number: 58 Composer of "[I am glad that you love my Lord, that you are doing His will]" in Songs of Spring Died: December 20, 1964. Buried: Laurel Land Memorial Park, Dallas, Texas. A native of DeKalb County, Alabama, Fossett attended his first Gospel Music School at age 12. At age 16, he attended Thomas Mosley’s Normal School. By age 19, he began singing and playing in a quartet. By 1937, he was teaching in High Point, North Carolina, where he married Katherine Strother. Three years later, he joined the Chattanooga, Tennessee, office of the Stamps-Baxter music publishers. Fossett’s works include: Fossett’s Inspirational Melodies (Dallas, Texas: Stamps-Baxter Music & Printing Company, 1952) --www.hymntime.com/tch/

B. B. Edmiaston

1881 - 1955 Person Name: B. B. E. Hymnal Number: 19 Author of "The Highway Home" in Songs of Spring Benard Bates Edmiaston Born: July 16, 1881, Bennetts, Baxter County, Arkansas. Died: December 2, 1964, Bronte, Texas. Buried: Fairview Cemetery, Bronte, Texas. Bernard was the son of David W. Edmiaston and Georgia Ann Fluty, and husband of Ella Allen. He studied music under Rufus Turner, Franklin Eiland, W. H. Lawson, Berry McGee, Emmett Dean, G. W. Fields, John Herbert, and many others, and taught singing schools for at least 38 years. He wrote and published songs through the Trio Music Company, Waco, Texas, and was director of the Southern Development Normal School of Music in Waco. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Eugene Wright

Hymnal Number: 31 Composer of "[When this life with its toiling is ended]" in Songs of Spring

Vida Munden Nixon

Hymnal Number: 20 Author of "On the Solid Rock" in Songs of Spring

Theodore Sisk

1906 - 1979 Person Name: T. S. Hymnal Number: 72 Author of "Jesus Brings Joy to My Soul" in Songs of Spring Theodore Roosevelt Sisk was born in Hall County, Georgia, July 15, 1906. He studied singing under his father, Jesse Lovell, and continued studying under other teachers. He wrote for or five hundred songs and was the music editor and member of The Sisk Music Company, publisher of gospel song books in Toccoa, Georgia. He died 1979 in Lexington, Ky. Dianne Shapiro from Who's Who among southern singers and composers by Otis J. Knippers; James D. Vaughan, Lawrenceburg, Tenn., 1937

Elsie Osborn

Person Name: E. Hymnal Number: 33 Author of "Where the Roses Never Fade" in Songs of Spring

W. Lee Higgins

1898 - 1953 Hymnal Number: 13 Composer of "[There's a beautiful Eden so sweet]" in Songs of Spring Full name William Lee Higgins

Thomas J. Farris

b. 1877 Person Name: T. J. F. Hymnal Number: 16 Author of "Keep the Joybells Ringing" in Songs of Spring Born: June 1, 1877, near Timbo, Arkansas. (c) The Cyber Hymnal (www.hymntime.com/tch)

H. N. Lincoln

1859 - 1948 Hymnal Number: 53 Composer of "[Now the day is over]" in Songs of Spring Horace Neely Lincoln, 1859-1948. Horace was the son of James Lincoln and Emaline King, and husband of Etta Lee Thurmand (married 1887). He moved with his family to Texas when he was seven years old. At age 10, he began attending a singing school conducted by James M. Jolley of Mississippi. In 1880, he taught his first singing class in his old neighborhood school house. Later that year, he attended his first normal music school, taught at Mountain Home (now Holland), Texas. Lincoln had other musical training under L. B. Shook (a former student of Philip Bliss) and John McPherson of Illinois. In 1898, he graduated from the Chicago National College of Music, and in 1906 took a post-graduate course under Horatio Palmer. Lincoln eventually became president of the Songland Music Company, and the World’s Normal Musical College. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (hymntime/tch)

Jack Osborn

Person Name: J. Hymnal Number: 33 Author of "Where the Roses Never Fade" in Songs of Spring

William Walker Combs

1883 - 1974 Person Name: W. W. Combs Hymnal Number: 57 Composer of "[I know that foes will oft assail me]" in Songs of Spring Born: June 1883, Locust Grove, Georgia. Died: Date unknown; the 1940 census shows him in Dallas, Texas. Combs’ parents were William McCollough Combs & Mary Elizabeth Walker Combs. He married Florence Bowman in 1909. His works include: The Voice in Singing: Its Care and Development, 1938 Modern Music Reader (Stamps-Baxter Music and Printing Company, 1939) © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Lethal A. Ellis

Person Name: L. E. A. Hymnal Number: 51 Author of "A Vision of the Cross" in Songs of Spring Lethal Albert Ellis was born in New Liberty, MS, Calhoun County. He was a widower, with one son, who he raised by himself with modest means. He remarried late in life. He had three grandchildren, seven great grandchildren, eight great-great. He fought in World War I. Ellis died in Vardaman, MS.

W. Allan Sims

1900 - 1955 Person Name: W. A. S. Hymnal Number: 40 Author of "Victory Ahead" in Songs of Spring William Allan Sims born in Texas, died in New Mexico. Dianne Shapiro, from Find a Grave website (accessed 6/20/2022)

William A. McKinney

Person Name: W. A. McK. Hymnal Number: 77 Author of "From the Cradle to the Grace" in Songs of Spring

Henry L. Thompson

1903 - 1989 Person Name: H. L. T. Hymnal Number: 2 Author of "Jesus Will Show Me the Way" in Songs of Spring

Clyde Williams

b. 1927 Hymnal Number: 76 Composer of "[Jesus went to the garden to kneel down in pray'r]" in Songs of Spring

James Miller

Person Name: J. Hymnal Number: 33 Author of "Where the Roses Never Fade" in Songs of Spring

Eddie Williams

Hymnal Number: 70 Composer of "[On that eternal morning, in yonder land]" in Songs of Spring

John L. Shrader

1893 - 1972 Hymnal Number: 20 Composer of "[When the tempest rages in the trying time of storm]" in Songs of Spring John Lafayette Schrader

J. H. Clark

1839 - 1888 Hymnal Number: 35 Composer of "[O I long to see the beauty]" in Songs of Spring Clark, John Haldenby, M.A., born at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Jan. 28, 1839, and educated at the Grammar School there, and at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1861. On taking Holy Orders, he became Curate of Barinby Moor and Fangfoss. After labouring in various parishes he became, in 1870, Vicar of West Dereham, Norfolk. Mr. Clark is known through his translation,"Soldiers, who are Christ's below." In 1880 he published The Marriage of Cana, and Other Verses; Lynn. It contains a few translations from the Latin, in addition to original verse. He died April 14, 1888. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

G. A. Thacker

Hymnal Number: 43 Composer of "[The footsteps of Jesus follow each day]" in Songs of Spring

Fred Woodruff

Person Name: F. W. Hymnal Number: 71 Author of "Hallelujah By and By" in Songs of Spring

J. E. Roane

Hymnal Number: 50 Composer of "[There will be a great home-coming over yonder]" in Songs of Spring

J. S. Torbett

1868 - 1941 Hymnal Number: 52 Author of "There's a Guiding Star" in Songs of Spring James Samuel Torbett Born in Georgia in 1868. He was a gospel song writer. He died in Texas. Dianne Shapiro, from obituary on Find a Grave memorial website (accessed 1/29/2020)

Byron Lawton Whitworth

1898 - 1998 Person Name: Byron L. Whitworth Hymnal Number: 46 Composer of "[Once I was friendless, sorrow was endless]" in Songs of Spring

Burl Carter

Person Name: B. C. Hymnal Number: 17 Author of "Our Childhood Home" in Songs of Spring

L. D. Bassett

1894 - 1964 Person Name: L. D. B., Jr. Hymnal Number: 56 Author of "Ev'rybody Sing" in Songs of Spring Lorenzo Dow Bassett, Jr.,born Dec. 30, 1894, died May 21, 1964 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Dianne Shapiro, from Bassett Family Association (www.bassetbrances.org) accessed 4-15-2018

J. M. Cain

Hymnal Number: 57 Author of "He Understands and Cares for Me" in Songs of Spring

U. G. Carr

Person Name: U. G. C. Hymnal Number: 59 Author of "Anchored In His Love" in Songs of Spring

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