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William E. Barber
Hymnal Number: d35 Author of "The river of Jordan" in The Garner
William E. Barber
Geo. C. Needham
1840 - 1902 Person Name: George C. Needham Hymnal Number: d28 Author of "Jesus is the Rock of ages" in The Garner
Geo. C. Needham
F. B. Harris
1850 - 1909 Person Name: Flora L. Best Harris Hymnal Number: d102 Author of "The siren's song" in The Garner Birth: 1850, USA
Death: Sep., 1909
Flora Lydia (Best) Harris was the daughter of Dr. David and Elizabeth (Lockart) Best. She was the 1st wife of Rev. Bishop Merriman Colbert Harris. He was a minister in the Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was a writer and wrote on Japanese themes. In 1891 she translated the 10th century classic 'Tosa Niki' ('Diary or Log of a Journey From Tosa to Kyoto').
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F. B. Harris
Rebecca Wilkinson
Hymnal Number: d101 Author of "The barren fig tree" in The Garner
Rebecca Wilkinson
Chandler Robbins
1810 - 1882 Hymnal Number: d70 Author of "Lo the day of rest declineth" in The Garner Robbins, Chandler, D.D., was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, Feb. 14, 1810, and educated at Harvard College (1829), and the Cambridge Divinity School (1833). In 1833 he became Pastor of the Second [Unitarian] Church, Boston, succeeding Dr. H. Ware, jun., and Ralph Waldo Emerson. He received his D.D. degree from Harvard in 1855, and died at Westport, Massachusetts, Sept. 12, 1882. Dr. Robbins published several prose works. He also edited The Social Hymn Book in 1843, and Hymns for Christian Worship, 1854. His two hymns,"Lo, the day of rest declineth" (Evening), and "While thus [now] Thy throne of grace we seek " (The Voice of God), appeared in Dr. G. E. Ellis's Psalms & Hymns for the Sanctuary, 1845. L. B. Barnes's tune, "Bedford Street," was written for the former.
[Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Chandler Robbins
T. L. Baily
1824 - 1914 Person Name: T. L. Bailey Hymnal Number: d82 Author of "Endless praise" in The Garner Bailey, Thomas L., [Thomas Loyd Baily] an American Baptist minister, was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2, 1824, and entered the ministry in 1871. He is the author of several hymns in various American Sunday School hymnbooks, as Welcome Tidings, The Garner, &c, including, (l) "Come, talk to me of Jesus" (Jesus the sinner's Friend); and (2) "No night in heaven, eternal day" (Heaven).
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
T. L. Baily
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