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Edward Hodges

1796 - 1867 Person Name: Edward Hodges (1796-1867) Adapter of "BEECHER" in Songs of Grace Born: July 20, 1796, Bristol, England. Died: September 1, 1867, Clifton, Bristol, England. Buried: Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Stanton Drew (about eight miles south of Bristol). Hodges’ musical gift showed itself at an early age; by 1819, he was playing the organ at St. James’ Church in Bristol, and at St. Nicholas’, 1821-1838. He also had an interesting mechanical bent, and spurred several technical improvements in organ design. He composed a number of services and anthem pieces, and Cambridge University awarded him a doctorate in music in 1825. Hodges eventually emigrated, accepting a post at the cathedral in Toronto, Canada, in 1838. The next year, he became music director at Trinity Parish in New York City. He became the organist at Trinity Church when it opened in 1846 (the church had its organ built to his specifications). He retired for health reasons in 1859, and returned to his native England in 1863. Hodges’ works include: An Apology for Church Music and Musical Festivals, in Answer…to the Standard and the Record (London: 1834) Essays on the Objects of Musical Study (Bristol, England: 1838) An Essay on the Cultivation of Church Music (New York: 1841) Contributions to the Quarterly Musical Magazine & Musical World Trinity Collection of Church Music (Boston, Massachusetts: 1864) (editor) Music-- BRISTOL GLOUCESTER HABAKKUK HYMN TO JOY --www.hymntime.com/

L. I. Gentle

1904 - 1988 Person Name: Leonard Ivor Gentle Translator of "Amo Dia, senkompara" in TTT-Himnaro Cigneta Leonard Ivor Gentle, an Englishman, was for 26 years the organist of the Londona Esperanta Diservo, for many years the best known Esperanto Protestant worship meeting. Four of his works appear in Adoru, and many others are accessible at the archived versions of TTT-Himnaro Cigneta (http://reocities.com/cigneto/thcbio/g/gentle_li.html) Leland Ross

Louisa May Alcott

1832 - 1888 Author of "O the beautiful old story!" in Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book Alcott, Louisa May, b. Nov. 29, 1833, d. at Concord, March 5, 1888. She published Little Men, Little Women, &c, and also wrote a few hymns for children. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ======================= Alcott, Louisa M., p. 1550, i. Mrs. Eva Munson Smith, in her Woman in Sacred Song, 1885, p. 668, gives Miss Alcott's hymn, "A little kingdom I possess," and prints a note thereon from Miss Alcott, dated “Concord, Oct. 7, 1883," in which Miss Alcott says that this hymn is “the only hymn I ever wrote. It was composed at thirteen, and . . . still expresses my soul's desire." The hymn is in the Baptist School Hymnal, 1880, and others. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Charles W. Wendte

1844 - 1931 Author of "Gentle Jesus, Pure And Holy" in The Cyber Hymnal Wendte, Rev. Charles William. (Boston, Massachusetts, June 11, 1844--September 9, 1911, San Francisco, California). He graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 1869 and served Unitarian churches in Chicago, Illinois; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Newport, Rhode Island From 1885 to 1900 he was engaged in denominational work on the Pacific Coast and thereafter was Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the American Unitarian Association, Boston, spending a part of each year in Europe. Long intrested in Sunday Schools he published in 1886 The Carol, for Sunday School and Home; a book of songs for use by children and young people entitled Jubilate Deo in 1900; and another in 1908 entitled Heart and Voice, a Collection of Songs and Services for the Sunday-School and Home. In 1907 he wrote a hymn on "The City of God" beginning "Not given to us from out of the sky," which was included in The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914, and in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937, (with a slight alteration by the author). --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Suleiman Dhomat

? - 1901 Person Name: سليمان ضومط Author of "إن أصابتني الرزايا" in كتاب الترانيم الروحية للكنائس الإنجيلية سليمان ضومط

William Henry Adams

1864 - 1932 Person Name: William H. Adams Author of "O'er the Trackless Ocean Guided" in The Mennonite Hymnary, published by the Board of Publication of the General Conference of the Mennonite Church of North America Adams, William Henry. (Ullastone, England, July 3, 1864-January 25, 1932, Aurora, Ontario.). Methodist/United Church. After graduating from Richmond (England) Theological College, he came in 1886 as a missionary to Newfoundland, serving at Burgeo, Topsail, and St. John's West. In 1891 he transferred to Ontario, where he was pastor at Haliburton (1891-1893), St. Ola (1893-1895), Dalrymple (1895-1897), Ivanhow (1897-1899), Orono (1899-1901), Claremont (1901-1903), Tamworth (1903-1905), Norwood (1905-1909), Penetanguishene (1909-1912), Downsview (1914-1918), Don Mills (1918-1920), Thornton (1920-1925), and Beeton (1925-1928). While he contributed much verse to magazines, only his hymn "for a pioneer service" spoke directly to those generations of Canadians who had not themselves endured the hardships of early settlement, but still felt respect and gratitude toward those who had. Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives

Richard W. Adams

b. 1952 Author of "On This Morn We See the Dawning" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: 1952, Missouri. Adams graduated from the University of Missouri, Columbia (BA 1974, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa).

Inez Russell

Author of "He that dwelleth in the silent" in Unity Song Selections

Maria Matilda Penstone

1859 - 1910 Person Name: M. M. Penstone Author of "Lord, to all the workers" in The Church and School Hymnal

R. Morris Lewis

1849 - 1918 Person Name: Richard Morris Lewis, 1849 - 1918 Translator of "Speak, I pray Thee, gentle Jesus!" in The Hymnary for use in Baptist churches LEWIS, RICHARD MORRIS (1847-1918), scholar and littérateur; b. 1847 at Forest Arms, Brechfa, Carms., son of John and Leisa Lewis. He became principal clerk in H.M. Inland Revenue offices, Swansea. Translations by him appear in Welsh hymnaries; he also made metrical renderings in Welsh of passages from Homer's Iliad. Perhaps his most important contribution is his translation of Gray's Elegy. He d. 20 Sept. 1918, and was buried in Brechfa churchyard. Some of his MSS. are in the N.L.W. (N.L.W. MSS. 2249-50). Bibliography: T. Gwynn Jones (ed.), Homer Cyfieithiadau gan R. Morris Lewis, Wrexham, 1928 (Wrexham, 1928); Cymru (O.M.E.), May 1926, 143; Yr Efrydydd, Bangor, Aug. 1933. Author: Rev. Professor John Oliver Stephens, M.A., B.D., (1880-1957), Carmarthen http://wbo.llgc.org.uk/en/s-LEWI-MOR-1847.html

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