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Mrs. J. C. Yule

1825 - 1897 Hymnal Number: 110 Author of "Room for My Saviour" in On Joyful Wing Pamelia S. Yule (nee Vining), married to James Colton Yule LOC Name Authority File

Charles H. Yatman

1855 - 1922 Person Name: Rev. C. H. Yatman Hymnal Number: 85 Author of "His Child I want to be" in On Joyful Wing

Rachel Rivers

Hymnal Number: 95 Author of "A Little While Together" in On Joyful Wing

Abbie Mills

Hymnal Number: 52 Author of "Redeemed, Praise the Lord" in On Joyful Wing

Sallie Martin

Hymnal Number: 96 Author of "The Great Beyond" in On Joyful Wing See Crosby, Fanny, 1820-1915

Jennie Garnett

Hymnal Number: 88 Author of "Songs in the calm, still Night" in On Joyful Wing Fanny Crosby's Pseudonym. See Crosby, Fanny, 1820-1915

D. C. John

Person Name: Rev. D. C. John Hymnal Number: 14 Composer of "[In the secret of His presence]" in On Joyful Wing

A. T. Gorham

Hymnal Number: 19 Author of "Waiting for You and Me" in On Joyful Wing

1857 - 1936 Person Name: W. H. G. Hymnal Number: 5 Author of "I will Trust in Thee" in On Joyful Wing In 1900, Geistweit was living in Cook County, Illinois. He was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Peoria, Illinois, in 1909, and was there also in 1910. As of 1920, he was in St. Louis, Missouri. His works include: The Young Christian and His Bible, 1906 Mary’s Story, 1904 Heart Talks on Every Day Themes for Every Day People, 1904 Present Needs in Young People’s Work, 1909 --www.hymntime.com/tch/ ================================ Geistweit, William Henry. (Jonestown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, October 24, 1857--March 11, 1936, San Diego, California). Baptist. Son of Pennsylvania Dutch and Huguenot parents. Shurtleff College, D.D. 1902 or 1903. Pastorates at Camden, New Jersey, 1885-1890; Minneapolis, 1891-1896; Galesburg, Illinois, 1897-1899; Chicago, 1900-1906; Peoria, Ill., 1907-1910; San Diego, 1911-1916; St. Louis, 1917-1922; Dayton, 1923-1929; Alhambra, Calif., 1932. At age fourteen began work in a newspaper office to learn the printing business. For five of the ten years in this business he was manager of the mechanical work on the Sunday School Times. Spent two years as general secretary of the Camden Association of the YMCA. Active in the organization and publications of the Baptist Young People's Union of America, founded in Chicago in 1891, and served on its Board of Managers. Member of the Executive Committee of the Northern Baptist Convention, 1912-1919. President of the American Baptist Publication Society, 1923-1924. Wrote a few hymns published in two collections, Melodious Sonnets (Philadelphia, 1885) and Joyful Wing. In addition, Burrage prints a three-stanza hymn beginning "Blessed Savior, my salvation I will trust in thee." Also, with Mrs. L.J.P. Bishop, he compiled and arranged a collection entitled The Ministry of Song: A Choice Selection of Hymns and Sacred Songs for Use in Junior Unions and Societies (Chicago: Baptist Young People's Union of America, 1900). --Deborah Carlton Loftis, DNAH Archives