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Frederica Bremer

1801 - 1865 Person Name: Miss Bremer Hymnal Number: 992 Author of "Cheek grow pale, but heart be vigorous" in Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes; for the use of Christian Congregations Born in Finland

Caroline W. Sewall

Person Name: Caroline Seward Hymnal Number: 1034 Author of "Lord, when Thine ancient people cried" in Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes; for the use of Christian Congregations

Charles Bradley

1789 - 1871 Person Name: Bradley Hymnal Number: 448 Author of "Jesus and didst Thou condescend" in Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes; for the use of Christian Congregations

T. H. Gallaudet

1787 - 1851 Hymnal Number: 805 Author of "Jesus, in sickness and in pain" in Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes; for the use of Christian Congregations Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins, LL.D., born in Philadelphia, Dec. 10, 1787, and graduated at Yale, 1805; was a tutor there from 1808-1810, and proceeded to Andover in 1811, remaining as a student till 1814. Having established an Institute for deaf mutes at Hartford, he visited Europe in its interest in 1814-15. From 1817 to 1830 he was the superintendent of that institution, and from 1838 to 1851 chaplain of the Insane Asylum, Hartford. He died 1851. He published sundry juvenile works. In 1845 he contributed to the Connecticut Congregational Psalms & Hymns, No. 409, "Jesus, in sickness and in pain" (Looking to Jesus in time of trial). It is in 5 stanzas of 4 lines. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M. A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Weston

Hymnal Number: 715 Author of "Jesus, who knows full well" in Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes; for the use of Christian Congregations

Wilson

Hymnal Number: 1136 Author of "What though the stream be dead" in Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes; for the use of Christian Congregations

S. Fletcher

1785 - 1863 Person Name: Miss Fletcher Hymnal Number: 1062 Author of "Think gently of the erring one!" in Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes; for the use of Christian Congregations Fletcher, Samuel, born at Compton, near Wolverhampton, in 1785, and educated at the Wolverhampton Grammar School. In 1805 he went to Manchester, and entering into business, he gradually rose to a position of wealth and influence. He died at Manchester, Oct. 13, 1863. Although engaged in extensive mercantile pursuits he took an active interest in literature, and was one of the chief promoters of Owens College, Manchester. His hymns appeared in a small collection which he prepared during an illness, for use in his own family, and subsequently published as Family Praise, 1850. From this collection the following hymns have come into common use:— 1. Father of light and life. Family Worship, Morning. 2. Lord, as a family we meet. Family Worship. These hymns were given in the New Congregational Hymn Book, 1859. Miller's note on Mr. Fletcher (Singers and Songs, &c), and an article in Good Words, July, 1864, are well written and full of information. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)