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Martha A. W. Cook

1806 - 1874 Person Name: Mrs. M. A. W. Cook Hymnal Number: 35 Author of "The Lord Will Provide" in Heavenly Carols Martha Elizabeth Duncan Walker Cook USA 1806-1874. Born in Northcumberland County, PA, she married Rev. Parsons Cook, editor of a Boston paper called “The Puritan Recorder”. She contributed to, and for a time, was editor of the “Continental Monthly”. She translated “The life of Chopin”, by Franz Liszt, from the French in 1863. She also translated “Undivine comedy” by Zygmund Krasinski in 1875. She died in Hoboken, NJ. John Perry

H. B. Hartzler

1840 - 1920 Person Name: Rev. H. B. Hartzler Hymnal Number: 26 Author of "Trusting in the Promise" in Heavenly Carols Hartzler, Henry Burns. (York County, Pennsylvania, March 23, 1840--1920). Evangelical. Licensed 1869, pastor Trinity Church, York Penn., in 1873-1874; editor of The Messenger in 1870s and 1880s; taught Bible in Mt. Hermon school, Northfield, Massachusetts. Was associated with D.L. Moody. Went with the United Evangelical CHurch in the schism, was editor of its Evangel 1894-1902. Editor of and hymn-contributor to Evangelischer Gesangbuch and Hymn Book of the United Evangelical Church. Bishop of that denomination 1902-1910. Most famous hymn was "Go and seek the lost and dying." --Ellen Jane Lorenz, DNAH Archives

C. C. Case

1843 - 1918 Hymnal Number: 94 Composer of "[Far out o'er the dim, unsounded sea]" in Heavenly Carols Charles Clinton Case USA 1843-1918. Born in Linesville, PA, his family moved to Gustavus, OH, when he was four. His father was an accomplished violinist, but a neighbor gave him a small violin when he was nine, and he mastered it before he could read music. At age 16 he went to singing school (without parental consent), borrowing the money from a neighbor. C. A. Bentley, a prominent conductor, was his first vocal music instructor, and William Bradbury's “Jubilee” was the school textbook. For three winters in a row, he attended Bentley's singing school, working his father's farm in the summer. He married Annie Williams. In 1866 he studied music in Boston with B. F. Baker. He also studied under George Root, Horatio Palmer, Philip Bliss, George Webb, and others, hymnwriters in their own right. Soon after, Case began teaching music, and when James McGranahan moved two miles from his home, they became friends. Case wrote and edited a number of Gospel song books in his life. 6 works. John Perry

E. D. Mund

Person Name: E. D. M. Hymnal Number: 37 Author of "Lead Me to Jesus" in Heavenly Carols Pseudonymn. See also Lorenz, Edmund S. (Edmund Simon), 1854-1942

Richard Torrey

Person Name: R. Torry, Jr. Hymnal Number: 73 Author of "Go, Wash in the Stream" in Heavenly Carols

Alfred A. Graley

1813 - 1905 Person Name: Rev. A. A. G. Hymnal Number: 10 Author of "I Long to Be There" in Heavenly Carols

William H. Pontius

1860 - 1937 Person Name: Will. H. Pontius Hymnal Number: 107 Composer of "[In the desert wilds of sin]" in Heavenly Carols

T. Martin Towne

1835 - 1912 Hymnal Number: 71 Composer of "[Rejoice, oh, yes, rejoice]" in Heavenly Carols Towne, T. Martin. (Coleraine, Franklin County, Massachusetts, May 31 [sic], 1835-- ). Methodist. Attended Williston's Seminary, East Hampton, Mass. 1855 to Hudson, New York, then Albany. Taught in Ypsilanti, Michigan, then Detroit. Settled in Janesville, Wisconsin. Served in the Civil War. Settled in Chicago; married Belle Kellogg. Keith C. Clark, DNAH Archives

J. W. Slaughenhaupt

Hymnal Number: 117 Author of "Are You Ready?" in Heavenly Carols

Thomas C. Upham

1799 - 1872 Person Name: Prof. T. C. Upham Hymnal Number: 98 Author of "Heaven With Us" in Heavenly Carols Upham, Thomas Cogswell, D.D., was born at Durfield, New Haven, Jan. 30,1799, and educated at Dartmouth College (1818), and at Andover (1821). Having entered the Congregational Ministry he became Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy at Bowdon College, in 1825, and retained the same to 1867. He died at New York, April 2, 1872. His publications were numerous and included Mental Philosophy (which was long and widely used); American Cottage Life; a volume of Poems, 1852, &c. Five of his hymns are given, with accompanying dates, in Hymns and Songs of Praise, &c, N. Y., 1874, as follows:— 1. Fear not, poor weary one. Help in Sorrow (1872). 2. Happy the man who knows. Obedience (1872). 3. 0 Thou great Ruler of the sky. Morning (1872). 4. 0 Thou great Teacher from the skies. Following Christ (1872). 5. 'Tis thus in solitude I roam. Omnipresence (1853). These hymns are limited in their use. In 1847 Upham published the Life and Religious Opinions and Experiences of Madam de la Mothe Guyon. . . Two vols., N. Y. In this work the anonymous translations from Madam Guyon's hymns are found, viz., (1) “By sufferings only can we know"; (2) "I would love Thee, God and Father"; (3) "'Tis not [by] the skill of human art." There are also additional translations of two of her hymns in the same work. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)