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Signe L. Bennett
1900 - 1996 Person Name: Signe L. Bennett, 1900-1996 Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.6 Translator of "The Highest Joy That Can Be Known" in The Covenant Hymnal Signe L. Bennett was born on November 22, 1900, probably in Illinois. She was educated at the North Park Academy, North Park College, and the Moody Bible Institute. She worked as a civil servant, and was a member of the North Park Covenant Church in Chicago, Illinois. She died on April 1996.
[Source: Erickson, John Irving. Sing It Again! Chicago, Illinois: Covenant Press, 1985.]
NN, Hymnary. Source: http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/b/e/n/bennett_sl.htm
Signe L. Bennett
Burton C. Bastuscheck
1910 - 1995 Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.6 Author of "Thou Who Didst Teach Beside the Sea" in Fourteen New Rural Hymns Born in Drum, Pennsylvania; college work at Penn State and theological training at Drew Seminary. Counselor in Town and Country Church at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon; served Methodist pastorates in Pennsylvania and Iowa; previously pastor of the Central Chapel Methodist Church at Keosauqua, Iowa.
--The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives
Burton C. Bastuscheck
W. A. Bartlett
1858 - 1931 Person Name: William Alfred Bartlett Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.6 Composer of "OAK PARK" in The Cyber Hymnal William Alfred Bartlett, D.D. was born February 17, 1858 in Chicago. He was the son of Dr. Samuel Colcord Bartlett who was founder and professor of The Chicago Theological Seminary and later president of Dartmouth College. William was a student in the preparatory department of North Western University, Evanston, and later at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. He received a MA from Dartmouth and a DD from Hartford Theological Seminary. He was pastor of three Congregational Churches in Chicago, the Farmington Avenue Congregational Church in Hartford, and the Pine Street Congregational Church in Lewiston, Maine. He was an accomplished preacher and organizer, involved in both the church and the community. He also was a musician and composer.
Dianne Shapiro, from "Maine: a history" published by The American Historical Society, New York, 1919"
W. A. Bartlett
Meredith Nicholson
1866 - 1947 Person Name: Meredith Nicholson, 1866-1947 Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.6 Author of "From Bethlehem to Calvary" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: December 6, 1866, Crawfordsville, Indiana.
Died: December 22, 1947, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Buried: Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Son of Edward Willis Nicholson and Emily Meredith Nicholson, Meredith began a newspaper career in 1884 at the Indianapolis Sentinel. He moved to the Indianapolis News the following year, staying there until 1897.
Nicholson wrote Short Flights in 1891, and continued to publish extensively, both poetry and prose, until 1928. Three of his books were national best sellers: The House of a Thousand Candles (number 4 in 1906), The Port of Missing Men (number 3 in 1907), and A Hoosier Chronicle (number 5 in 1912).
In 1928, Nicholson entered politics, and served two years as city councilman in Indianapolis. He rose through the ranks of the Democratic party, and was rewarded with appointments as envoy to Paraguay, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
Nicholson married Eugenie Clementine Kountze, daughter of Herman Kountze, and later Dorothy Wolfe Lannon.
http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/n/i/c/nicholson_m.htm
Meredith Nicholson
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