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C. H. Hohgatt

Tune Title: [A Bible Christian I will be] Composer of "[A Bible Christian I will be]" in The Cyber Hymnal Early 20th Century Music: BIBLE, CHRISTIAN, A --www.hymntime.com/tch ============== Cyrus Hershell Hohgatt taught music at EBU (Eugene Bible Academy) and was the choir director at First Christian Church at Eighth and Pearl in Eugene, OR. --ncbible.org/WordPart2.html (excerpt)

Jacob Henry Hall

1855 - 1941 Person Name: J. H. H. Tune Title: [A blessed thought comes to my soul] Author of "Homeland of the Soul" in Crowning Day No. 5 Jacob Henry Hall, 1855-1941 Born: January 2, 1855, near Harrisonburg, Virginia. Died: December 22, 1941. Buried: Dayton, Virginia. Son of farmer George G. Hall and Elizabeth Thomas Hall, Jacob attended singing schools taught by Timothy Funk when he was a boy. As his love of music progressed, he earned money by trapping quail and bought a German accordion; he soon learned to play one part while singing another. After he and his brother jointly purchased an organ, he taught himself to play hymn tunes, Gospel songs, and anthems. He went on to study music theory, harmony, and composition in Harrisonburg and elsewhere, and in 1877 attended a Normal Music School in New Market, Virginia, taught by Benjamin Unseld and P. J. Merges. Afterward, he partnered with H. T. Wartman for two years to conduct singing schools and conventions. In 1890, Hall attended Dana’s Musical Institute in Warren, Ohio, and a normal school run by George & F. W. Root at Silver Lake, New York. He later served as principal of the National Normal School of Music. Hall’s works include: Hall’s Songs of Home, 1885 The Star of Bethlehem (Dayton, Virginia: Ruebush-Kieffer Company) Musical Million (assistant editor) Spirit of Praise, with William Kirkpatrick & Charles Case (Dayton, Virginia: The Ruebush-Kieffer Company, 1911) Hall’s Quartettes for Men, 1912 Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers/em> (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1914) Sources-- Hall, pp. 329-34 Lyrics-- Glorious Morning Dawns, The O Thou Whose Matchless Power Controls --hymntime.com/tch

J. Lawrence Deavers

Tune Title: [A blind man had lived for his Savior] Author of "All Things Are Different In Heaven" in Clarion Call

N. S. Talbot

1879 - 1943 Person Name: Neville S. Talbot Tune Title: [A Boy was born in Bethlehem] Translator of "A Boy Was Born in Bethlehem" in Songs of Light Bishop of Pretoria

Franz Liszt

1811 - 1886 Tune Title: [A building of beauty life may be] Composer (Chorus) of "[A building of beauty life may be]" in Gloria in Excelsis

Herbert Scholfield

Tune Title: [A bunny's dear home is a hole in the ground] Author of "Home" in Song and Play for Children

W. S. Brown

Tune Title: [A call for loyal soldiers] Author of "As a Volunteer" in Assembly Songs Early 20th Century

Charles Sprague

1791 - 1875 Person Name: Chas. J. Sprague Tune Title: [A call in thunder tones is heard] Translator of "The Watch on the Rhine" in The Male Chorus No. 1 Sprague, Charles. (Boston, Massachusetts, October 22, 1791--January 22, 1875, Boston). A Unitarian layman. Although a businessman without an education he wrote much verse which brought him considerable reputation and requests for poems to celebrate special occasions. One of them was read before the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Cambridge in 1829, and was re-published, with minor alterations, a few years later in Calcutta by a British officer, as his own work. A collection of his poems was published in 1841, and an enlarged edition in 1850. A number of his shorter poems are given in Putnam's Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith, and a hymn attributed to "C. Sprague" is included in Hedge and Huntington's Hymns for the Church of Christ, 1853, beginning "O Thou, at whose dread name we stand." --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

A. H. Gregory

1873 - 1961 Person Name: A. H. G. Tune Title: [A call now is sounding, and clearly resounding] Author of "Tell the Lost Ones of His Love" in New Songs of Praise Ambrose Houston Gregory, known as "Ambers" born in Tennessee died in Oklahoma Dianne Shapiro, from Find a Grave website (accessed 6/20/2022)