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John H. Stockton

1813 - 1877 Person Name: Rev. J. H. Stockton Composer of "[I am a little soldier]" in Hymnal for Primary Classes Stockton, John Hart, a Methodist minister, was born in 1813, and died in 1877. He was a member of the New Jersey Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the successive pastoral charges that he filled as a member of that Conference are found in the Conference Journal. He was not only a preacher, but a musician and composer of tunes, as well as hymn writer. He published two gospel song books: Salvation Melodies, 1874, and Precious Songs, 1875. Hymn Writers of the Church by Charles Nutter, 1911 =============== Stockton, John Hart, b. April 19, 1813, and d. March 25, 1877, was the author of "Come, every soul by sin oppressed" (Invitation), in I.D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1878, and of "The Cross, the Cross, the blood¬stained Cross" (Good Friday) in the same collection. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) =============== Stockton, John Hart. (New Hope, Pennsylvania, April 19, 1813--March 25, 1877). Born of Presbyterian parents, he was converted at a Methodist camp meeting in 1838, being received into full membership in the New Jersey Conference in 1857. Because of ill health he twice took the "supernumerary relations." He withdrew from actual pastoral work in 1874 and engaged in compiling and publishing gospel hymn books, issuing Salvation Melodies that year and Precious Songs in 1875, writing both words and music for a number of the songs. He died suddenly after attending a Sunday morning service at Arch Street Church, Philadelphia. Our Hymnody, McCutchan, has, perhaps, the fullest account of him readily available. --Robert G. McCutchan, DNAH Archives

Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey

1849 - 1945 Person Name: Margaret E. Leigh Author of "I am a little soldier" in Hosanna for the Sunday School Jersey, Margaret Elizabeth Villiers, née Leigh, Countess of, eldest daughter of Lord Leigh, of Stoneleigh, in the county of Warwick, was born Oct. 29,1849, and in 1872 was married to the Earl of Jersey. In 1871 the Religious Tract Society published a small collection of her hymns and poems under the title of Hymns and Poems for very Little Children. A second series under the same title appeared in 1875. They "were mostly written by Lady Jersey before she married, for the use of a little sister, it being difficult to find hymns composed in language simple enough for a very young child." And certainly they are distinguished by a charming simplicity both of thought and language. Six of these hymns were included in W. R. Stevenson's School Hymnal, 1880. Some of these are repeated in the Voice of Praise (London S. S. Union) and other collections. Her hymns in common use are:— 1. Here am I, for thou didst call me. Child Samuel. 2. Holy Jesus, Who didst die. A Child's Prayer. 3. I am a little soldier. A child of God. 4. 0 let me praise my God and King, Praise to God the Father. 5. Speak the truth, for that is right. Speaking the Truth. 6. There are many lovely things below!. Heaven. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Judson

Composer of "[I am a little soldier]" in The Standard Sunday School Hymnal

Alfred T. Schauffler

1841 - 1915 Person Name: A. T. Schauffler Composer of "[I am a little soldier]" in Hosanna for the Sunday School An essay on Alfred Theodore Schauffler is available in the DNAH Archives: Schauffler, Robert McE. (n.d.; data compiled 1950-1951). Alfred Theodore Schauffler. In Schauffler chronicle : a roster and biographical sketches of the Schauffler family in America : William Gottlieb Schauffler and Mary Reynolds Schauffler and their descendants (15-16). [s.l.] : The Author.