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Frederick S. Stanton

1857 - 1915 Person Name: F. S. Stanton, Mus. Bac. Hymnal Number: 224 Composer of "[We shall greet them at home, we shall greet them]" in Songs for Service Stanton, Frederick S. (New Bedford, Massachusetts, December 20, 1857--October 1, 1915, New Bedford). Held a Bachelor of Music degree and was ordained to the Advent Christian ministry. He held pastorates at Hudson Falls, New York and Lawrence, Mass. Ill health and a final paralysis limited activity in his later years, although he supplied in various churches around New Bedford. He wrote words and music to a number of hymns, and composed the music for other Advent Christian hymn-writers. He was secretary of the Southern Massachusetts District Conference of his denomination. He contributed to the preparation of several of its hymnals, and was co-editor of The Golden Sheaf (1898), Carols of Hope (1906) and The Advent Christian Hymnal (1913). His obituary, by Willis G. Brown, is in The World's Crisis, 20 October 1915, p. 15. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives

Emma E. Meyer

Hymnal Number: 82 Composer of "[There's a city, shining bright]" in Songs for Service

Fred S. Shepard

1840 - 1907 Person Name: F. S. S. Hymnal Number: 1 Author of "Harvest Fields" in Songs for Service

Mark M. Jones

Hymnal Number: 77 Composer of "[Tho' the pathway seems dreary and long]" in Songs for Service

Ella E. Miles

1855 - 1914 Hymnal Number: 182 Author of "Now Is the Day" in Songs for Service Miles, Ella Elizabeth. (Athol, Massachusetts, March 24, 1855--December 29, 1914, Holden, Mass.) Advent Christian. Daughter of W.W. Boyden and wife of James A. Miles, she began writing poems and hymns at the age of fifteen. Many of them appeared in early hymn books of her church. --Moses C. Crouse, DNAH Archives