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William Edward Penney
Person Name: W. E. Penney Hymnal Number: 16 Author of "Earnest Toilers" in Happy Greetings
William Edward Penney
Julia C. R. Dorr
1825 - 1913 Person Name: Mrs. J. C. R. Dorr Hymnal Number: 156 Author of "Jubilate!" in Happy Greetings Born: February 13, 1825, Charleston, South Carolina.
Died: January 18, 1913, Rutland, Vermont, at her home, The Maples.
Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland, Vermont.
Pseudonym: Caroline Thomas.
Daughter of William Young Ripley, Julia lost her mother as a child. In 1830 her father took her to Vermont, where she was educated. She began writing poetry at an early age, but did not publish anything until two years after her 1847 marriage to Seneca M. Dorr, a prominent New York lawyer and banker.
After her marriage, Julia contributed to magazines, mainly poetry, with an occasional short story. She counted among her friends writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell, Julia Ward Howe, Richard Watson Gilder, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. She carried on a correspondence with Holmes for over 20 years.
Dorr’s works include:
Farmingdale, 1854
A Cathedral Pilgrimage
Bermuda. An Idyl of the Summer Islands
Bride and Bridegroom. A Series of Letters to a Young Married Couple
Friar Anselmo and Other Poems
The Legend of the Babouhka
Lanmere
Sybil Huntington
Expiation
The Fallow Field
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
Julia C. R. Dorr
T. Bowman Stephenson
1839 - 1912 Person Name: T. B. Stephenson Hymnal Number: 65 Author of "Jesus Saves Thee and Me" in Happy Greetings Stephenson, Thomas Bowman, D.D., LL.D., son of the Rev. John Stephenson, was born at Newcastle on Dec. 22, 1839, and educated at Wesley College, Sheffield, subsequently graduating at the University of London. In 1860 he entered the Wesleyan Ministry, and has since laboured in Norwich, Manchester, Bolton, and London. The great work of his life has been the establishment and maintenance of The Children's Home at Victoria Park, London, and its branches at Bolton, Birmingham, and the Isle of Man, and in Canada. Dr. Stephenson has written for Magazines and Reviews, and published a small work on Sisterhoods, and a Memorial Sketch of the late James Barlow. He has written several hymns, of which the following are most widely known:—
1. Fading like a lifetime ends another day. Evening. Written circa 1873, and published in The Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879, No. 487, in 2 stanzas of 8 lines.
2. Hear us, Saviour, bowed before Thee. Children's Hymn. Written for a Festival at the Children's Home, circa 1879.
3. 0 Father, Whose spontaneous love. Easter, or Missions. Appeared in The General Hymnary for Missions, &c, 1889, No. 266, in 9 stanzas of 4 lines.
4. Onward, o'er Time's great ocean. Life a Voyage. Written during a voyage across the South Sea.
5. Sweetly dawns the Sabbath morning. Sunday Morning. Written circa 1875, and published in The Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879, No. 504, in 4 stanzas of 8 lines.
6. This is the glorious gospel word. Jesus saves. Called forth by a religious Convention at Brighton, and published in The Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879, No. 314, in 5 st. of 8 1., and in The General Hymnary, 1889, No. 431, with an additional stanza (st. iv.).
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Stephenson, T. B. , p. 1092, ii. Dr. Stephenson was President of the Wesleyan Conference in 1891, and became warden of the Wesley Deaconess Institute in 1903. His hymn,"Lord, grant us like the watching five," is in The Methodist Hymn Book, 1904.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
T. Bowman Stephenson
Simao Portogallo
Person Name: Portogallo Hymnal Number: 118 Composer of "[He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass]" in Happy Greetings
Simao Portogallo
C. H. Mann
Hymnal Number: 11 Author of "Hide Away with Jesus" in Happy Greetings 19th Century
C. H. Mann
George S. Weeks
Hymnal Number: 6a Composer of "[Jesus is our Shepherd]" in Happy Greetings
George S. Weeks
A. B. Bragdon
1872 - 1918 Hymnal Number: 116 Author of "Ye have Done it unto Me" in Happy Greetings Alonzo Burnham Bragdon was born on July 12, 1872 in Monroe, Michigan. He was known to the business world as Bragdon, Jr. He was editor of the Record-Commercial, a weekly paper published at Monroe, Michigan and was active in local journalism practically all his life. After completing the curriculum of the public schools of Monroe, he entered high school, in which he graduated as a member of the class of 1893. He began to sell newspapers when a lad of eleven years of age, and after leaving school he was engaged as a reporter until he had reached his legal age. He became city reporter on the Monroe Democrat and held that position for the ensuing five years. In April, 1900 he opened an office and handled various local papers. He died on September 5, 1918.
--excerpts from History of Monroe County, Michigan
A. B. Bragdon
W. H. Luckenbach
Person Name: Rev. W. H. Luckenbach Hymnal Number: 18 Author of "Do thy Duty, do it Well" in Happy Greetings
W. H. Luckenbach
Ellen C. Webster
Person Name: Mrs. E. C. Webster Hymnal Number: 171 Author of "Ring the Joy-Bells" in Happy Greetings
Ellen C. Webster
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