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George Walker Whitcomb

Author of "Is It the Crowning Day?" in Billy Graham crusade songs Pseudonym. See also Ostrom, Henry.

A. C. White

Composer of "[Joyously, joyously, silvery clear]" in Carols Old and Carols New

A. J. White

Author of "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want" in The Tabernacle

1862 - 1962 Author of "Beautiful city, mine eyes shall" Alma Bridwell White was born in 1862 in Lewis County, Ky. She received an A.B. from Millersburg (Ky) Female College and, later, A.M. and D.D. degrees from Alma White College, which she founded. After a teaching career, White became interested in preaching after marrying the Rev. Kent White, an Methodist minister. Since women preachers were frowned upon, she started preaching on street corners and organizing revival meetings. In 1902 she organized the Pillar of Fire Church, based in Zeraphath, New Jersey, which split from Methodism and adhered to the Holiness movement. She was consecrated a bishop in 1918. She travelled with her message across the United States and into Europe. She was a powerful force, founding colleges, operating radio stations and publishing books and pamphlets. She perceived a spiritual and cultural crisis in the United States in the 1920's and embraced and promoted the Ku Klux Klan as an agent of transformation against modernism, Catholicism, immigration, alcohol, and other cultural movements during that era. Dianne Shapiro, from Obituary (New York Times, June 27, 1946 and "Christianizing the Klan: Alma White, Branford Clarke, and the Art of Religious Intolerance" by Lynn S. Neal Church History 78:2 (June 2009), 350-378

Arthur K. White

1889 - 1989 Editor of "" in Cross and Crown Hymnal, 3rd ed. Son of Alma White, husband of Kathleen M. White

B. White

Author of "We praise Thee, Lord, for love which Thou hast given"

B. F. White

1800 - 1879 Author of "Call To Arms" in The Christian Harmony Benjamin F. White (b. Spartanburg, SC, 1800; d. Atlanta, GA, 1879), was coeditor of The Sacred Harp (1844). He came from a family of fourteen children and was largely self-taught. Eventually White became a popular singing-school teacher and editor of the weekly Harris County newspaper. Bert Polman