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Person Name: Anon. Author of "Looking Upward" in Northfield Hymnal In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
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Mary Butler
1841 - 1916 Person Name: Anon. Author of "Looking Upward" in Service Songs for Young People's Societies, Sunday Schools and Church Prayer Meetings Butler, Mary. The following hymns in Mrs. Brock's Children's Hymn Book 1881:—"Looking upward every day " (Onwards), and "O help me, Lord, this day to be" (Morning), are signed with this name. Beyond this we have no information.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Butler, Mary, p. 1555, ii., is a granddaughter of Bp. Samuel Butler, of Lichfield, 1836-39; and daughter of Thomas Butler, M.A., sometime Rector of Langar, Notts, and Prebendary of Clifton in Lincoln Cath. “Whiteness of the winter's snow" (All from God), in The Council School Hymn Book 1905, is also by Miss Butler.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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Percy S. Foster
Composer of "[Looking upward every day] " in Service Songs for Young People's Societies, Sunday Schools and Church Prayer Meetings Early 20th Century
Percy S. Foster, of Washington, was leader of the music of International Christian Endeavor conventions.
from The Congregationalist and Christian World, Volume 90, 1906
Percy S. Foster
