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James Oren Thompson

1834 - 1917 Person Name: J. O. Thompson Author of "Far and Near the Fields Are Teeming" in Psalter Hymnal (Blue) Born June 9, 1834 in Waldo, ME. He was a minister before joining the army and fighting in the Civil War. After the war he joined the Methodist Episcopal Maine Conference in 1866. He transferred to the Providence, RI conference and retired in 1886. He moved to Keyser, WV and edited The Mountain Echo. He then moved to Charleston, WV and served as secretary of the Agriculture. In 1905 he moved to St. Petersburg, FL where he was the minister at the First Ave. Methodist Church. He died Sept. 28, 1917. From Hymn Studies http://homeschoolblogger.com/hymnstudies/

J. B. O. Clemm

1855 - 1927 Composer of "CLEMM" in Psalter Hymnal (Blue) James Bowman Overton Clemm

John O. Thomson

1782 - 1818 Person Name: John O. Thompson, 1782-1818 Author of "The Call for Reapers" in Revival Hymns and Choruses Thomson, John, M.D., 1783-1818. A Leeds physician, who contributed to Aspland's Collection, 1310:— 1. To God, the universal King. To the One God. 2. Jehovah, God ! thy gracious power. Omnipresence of God. 3. To thee my heart, eternal King. Praise. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)