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Felix Adler

1851 - 1933 Author of "Hail the glorious golden city" in Hymns for the Living Age Adler, Felix, Ph.D. Born in Germany in 1851; taken to New York in 1857; graduated at Columbia College 1870; and Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature at Cornell University, 1874-76. He published in 1877 Creed and Deed. His hymn, "Sing we of the golden city" (City of our Hopes) is in The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904. Sometimes given as "Have you heard of the golden city?" --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Lorenzo Lyons

1807 - 1886 Person Name: Laiana (Lorenzo Lyons), 1807-1886 Translator of "E KA UHANE MANA LANI" in Na Himeni Haipule Hawaii Lorenzo Lyons also known as Makua Laiana, missionary to Hawaii. Dianne Shapiro

Jonathan Whittemore

1802 - 1860 Person Name: J Whittemore Author of "Gracious Saviour, Gentle Shepherd" in The A.M.E. Zion Hymnal

Juanita R. de Balloch

1894 - 1959 Person Name: Juanita R. de Balloch, 1894-1994 Translator of "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling" in Santo, Santo, Santo Born: 1894, Spain.

August Hermann Walter

1817 - 1880 Person Name: A. Walter Author of "Auf dich seh' ich" in Frohe Lieder und Brüder-Harfe

John G. Adams

1810 - 1887 Author of "Heaven is here, where hymns of gladness" in A Hymnal for Joyous Youth Adams, John Greenleaf. Co-editor with Dr. E. H. Chapin of the Universalist Hymns for Christian Devotion, 1846; and, alone, of the Gospel Psalmist, 1861. He was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1810. The collections named contain in each case 16 hymns by him. They are not, however, received outside his sect. The best are:— 1. Heaven is here, its hymns of gladness. [Peace.] Contributed to the Hymns for Christian Devotion, 1846, No. 419, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines. 2. God's angels! not only on high do they sing. [Ministry of Angels.] No. 830 in his Gospel Psalmist, 1861, and No. 240 in Longfellow and Johnson's Hymns of the Spirit, Boston, 1864. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, (1907)