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J. C. Middleton

Hymnal Number: 122 Arranger of "[Land ahead, its fruits are waving]" in Young Men's Christian Association Hymn and Tune Book

Richard Torrey

Person Name: R. Torrey, Jr. Hymnal Number: 64 Author of "The Beautiful Stream" in Young Men's Christian Association Hymn and Tune Book

1809 - 1890 Person Name: L. Marshall Hymnal Number: 32 Composer of "[I gave My life for thee]" in Young Men's Christian Association Hymn and Tune Book Marshall, Leonard. (Hudson, New Hampshire, May 3, 1809--July 1, 1890, Hudson, N.H.) Baptist. Voice pupil of John Paddon of London and Charles Zenner, harmonist. Tenor soloist of Handel and Haydn Society ca. 1844-1850. Music director at Twelfth Congregational Church, Boston, Massachusetts, 1836-1957; Bowdoin Square Baptist Church, ca.1867-1870; Harvard Street Baptist Church, ca.1870-1875, and other Boston churches. Chorus director at Tremont Temple, 1857-1867. Author of popular songs, "Don't Give Up the Ship" and "The Mountaineer," and of thirteen church music books; published The Sacred Star hymnal, 1861, Boston. Wrote words of Easter hymn commencing, "Jesus Christ, our precious Savior," and hymn "Ever gracious, loving Savior, Come and bless us from on high." --E.F. Quinn, DNAH Archives Note: Typewritten copy of obituary from the Boston Evening Transcript 3 July 1890, is in the DNAH Archives.

Sidney Dyer

1814 - 1898 Person Name: Rev. S. Dyer Hymnal Number: 124 Author of "Resting By and By" in Young Men's Christian Association Hymn and Tune Book Dyer, Sidney, who served in the U. S. Army from 1831 to c. 1840, is a native of White Creek, Washington County, New York, where he was born in 1814. On leaving the army he was ordained a Baptist Minister in 1842, and acted first as a Missionary to the Choctaws, then as Pastor in Indianapolis, Indiana (1852), and as Secretary to the Baptist Publication Society, Phila. (1859). He has published sundry works, and in the Southwestern Psalmist, 1851, 16 of his hymns are found. The following are later and undated:— 1. Go, preach the blest salvation. Missions. In the Baptist Praise Book, 1871, and The Baptist Hymn & Tune Book, 1871. 2. Great Framer [Maker] of unnumbered worlds. National Humiliation. In the Boston Unitarian Hymn [and Tune] Book, 1868, and others. 3. When faint and weary toiling. Work whilst it is day. In the Baptist Praise Book, 1871. 4. Work, for the night is coming. Duty. This hymn is in wider use than the foregoing, but though often ascribed to Dyer, is really by Miss Anna L. Walker, of Canada, who published a volume of Poems, 1868. S. Dyer, in 1854, wrote a hymn on the same subject for a Sunday-school in Indianapolis, and hence the confusion between the two. In 1882 a cento beginning with the same stanza was given in Whiting's (English) Hymns for the Church Catholic, No. 366. Of this cento, stanzas i., ii. are by Miss Walker; and stanzas iii., iv. by Miss Whiting, daughter of the editor of that collection. [Rev.F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================== Dyer, S., p. 317, ii. Additional hymns by Dr. Dyer are given in the Baptist Sursum Corda, Phila., 1898, with the following dates :— 1. Enter, Jesus bids thee welcome. Invitation. 1883. 2. No more with horrors veil the tomb. Burial. 1897. Dr. Dyer d. in 1898. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ================= Dyer, Sidney. (White Creek, New York, February 11, 1814--December 22, 1898, Philadelphia). Baptist. Indiana State University, honorary A.M. ; Bucknell University, honorary Ph.D. Missionary to the Choctaws early in his career. Pastorates at Brownsville, New York, 1842; Indianapolis, 1852-1859. District secretary of the American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1859-1885. Author of eight religious books designed for children, two volumes of verse: Voices of Nature (Louisville, 1849), and Songs and Ballads (Indianapolis, 1857). Wrote a large number of hymns in Sunday School as well as church collections. In 1851, he published The South Western Psalmist (Louisville), which became known as Dyer's Psalmist. Of 467 hymns, 16 are by Dyer. Also wrote a prize-winning hymn "O wondrous land! thy onward march sublime" for the Jubilee of the American Baptist Home Mission Society which was help in New York in 1882. This 66-stanza hymn may be found in Baptist Home Missions in North America: Including a Full Report of the Proceedings and Address of the Jubilee Meeting . . . (New York: Baptist Home Mission Rooms, 1883). "Work, for the night is coming," written by Annie L. (Walker) Coghill, was sometimes ascribed to Dyer. The confusion arose when, in 1854, Dyer wrote a text on the same subject for a Sunday School in Indianapolis. --Deborah Carlton Loftis, DNAH Archives

B. M. Adams

Person Name: Rev. B. M. Adams Hymnal Number: 30 Author of "All I have I leave for Jesus" in Young Men's Christian Association Hymn and Tune Book B. M. Adams was a Methodist minister of Brooklyn, New York, and was present and assisted at the opening of the camp meeting at Vineland New Jersey in 1867, and at Hamilton, Massachusetts in July, 1870. He died about 1903. American writers and compilers of sacred music by Frank J. Metcalf (New York; Cincinnati: Abingdon Press, 1925)

Mary P. Griffin

Hymnal Number: 140 Author of "Waiting by the River" in Young Men's Christian Association Hymn and Tune Book

L. P. Rowland

Editor of "" in Young Men's Christian Association Hymn and Tune Book L. P. Rowland Jr., editor of two Y. M. C. A. Hymnals, is Levi P. Rowland Jr.. Born in Springfield MA, he was just under 21 years old when, in late 1858 he became Librarian for the Boston Y. M. C. A. at a salary of $4 a week. His duties expanded as he managed their rooms, then managed the organization’s financial campaigns. Somehow there was also time for his editing of their hymnal of 1868. Rowland’s apparent frail health led him to opt against entering the ministry. His ‘Y’ salary rose to $2000 a year just before, after 15 years with the Boston ‘Y’ he left for a more lucrative position as top manager of the Philadelphia Y. M. C. A. There, in 1875, edited another ‘Y’ hymnal, this time for his Philadelphia compatriots. Rowland may have been the earliest person to make the Y. M. C. A. his entire life’s work. In true Y. M. C. A. spirit, the source does not mention his denomination. Source: Whiteside, William B., 1951, The Boston Y. M. C. A. and Community Need, New York, Association Press, pp 41-42.