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Josephine Pollard

1834 - 1892 Person Name: Josepine Pollard Hymnal Number: d28 Author of "On to meet the foe" in Temperance Glee Book Josephine Pollard USA 1834-1892. Born at NYC, NY, one of seven children and daughter of an architect, she attended an exclusive girls school, Spingler Institute, and was a lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church. She was a founding member of the professional women’s club, Sorosis. She never married. She became an author, poet, and hymnist, writing many children’s books and for children’s magazines, including Harper’s, Scribner’s, and the New York Ledger. She wrote 44 books, mostly religious, for children, but also about history, birds, sports and games, and adventure stories. She also wrote 100+ hymn lyrics as well. She worked as an editor for the Sunday School Times and for the Methodist Book Concern, where she edited a magazine for African Americans. Her children’s books include: “History of the U.S.” (1884); “The life of George Washington” ; “The life of Christ for young people”; “History of the New Testament in words of one syllable” (1899); “History of the Old Testament in words of one syllable” (1899); “Bible stories for children” (1899). She was in poor health in her latter years. She died at NYC, NY. John Perry =============== Pollard, Josephine, born in New York, circa 1840, is the author of (1) "I stood outside the gate" (Lent), (2) "Joy-bells ringing, Children singing" (Joy) in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1878. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

W. T. Giffe

1848 - 1926 Hymnal Number: d5 Author of "What drink with water can compare" in Temperance Glee Book Born: June 28, 1848, Portland, Indiana. Died: July 13, 1926, Seattle, Washington. Buried: Mount Hope Cemetery, Logansport, Indiana. Giffe grew up in College Corners, Indiana (near Portland), and served in the Army during the closing days of the American civil war. After the war, he attended Liber College, and studied law for two years. While in college, he was a member of the college glee club, and took lessons in the college singing school. Later, he studied with teachers such as J. W. Suffern, George Root, Luther Emerson, Horatio Palmer, and Henry Perkins. Giffe had a fine baritone voice, and was in demand as a concert singer. He soon became popular as a chorus director and convention conductor. His first book for singing schools was New Favorite, which sold thousands of copies. The Oliver Ditson Company of Boston, Massachusetts, published many of his early works, but Giffe went on to form his own publishing house, the Home Music Company, in Logansport, Indiana. He also edited the Home Music Journal for several years. Later, Giffe became supervisor of music in the public schools in his home town. And he was one of three men selected to deliver an address in Logansport, Indiana, at the memorial services for assassinated president William McKinley. Giffe and his wife Nancy had no children. His works include: The Brilliant, 1874 Crown of Gold, with Frank Davis (Logansport, Indiana: Home Music Company, 1892) The New Deal, with Louis Eichhorn (Logansport, Indiana: Home Music Company, 1898) A Practical Course in Harmony and Musical Composition --www.hymntime.com/tch

R. G. Staples

b. 1833 Hymnal Number: d52 Author of "The social glass" in Temperance Glee Book Robert Griffin Staples. He was born Robert Griffin on January 24, 1833 in Washington DC. Both of his parents died in a carriage accident when he was an infant; he was then adopted by his mother's sister, Mary Ann King, and her husband, Samuel Johnson Staples and he was given the name Robert Griffin Staples. He was a captain in the Union Army during the Civil War and after the war was promoted to Major. He then worked as chief clerk in the Portsmouth United States Navy Yard. Religion was an important part of his life, as well as music. He died June 20, 1891 in Portsmouth, VA. Dianne Shapiro, from Jean Brickey (great-granddaughter)

Richard Torrey

Hymnal Number: d36 Author of "Life's battlefield" in Temperance Glee Book

Edwin H. Nevin

1814 - 1889 Person Name: Edwin Henry Nevin Hymnal Number: d17 Author of "Live on the field of battle" in Temperance Glee Book Nevin, Edwin Henry, D.D., son of Major David Nevin, was born at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, May 9, 1814. He graduated in Arts at Jefferson College, 1833; and in Theology at Princeton Seminary, in 1836. He held several pastorates as a Presbyterian Minister from 1836 to 1857; then as a Congregational Minister from 1857 to 1868; and then, after a rest of six years through ill health, as a Minister of the Reformed Church, first at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and then in Philadelphia. Dr. Nevin is the author of several hymns, the more important of which are:— 1. Always with me [us], always with [us] me. Jesus always present. 2. Come up hither, come away. Invitation Heavenward. 3. Happy, Saviour, would I be. Trust. This is given in the Lyra Sacra Americana as "Saviour! happy should I be." This change was made by the editor "with the consent and approbation of the author." 4. 0 heaven, sweet heaven. Heaven. Written and published in 1862 after the death of a beloved son, which made heaven nearer and dearer from the conviction that now a member of his family was one of its inhabitants" (Schaff’s Christ in Song, 1870, p. 539). 5. Live on the field of battle. Duty. Appeared in the Baptist Devotional Hymn Book, 1864. 6. I have read of a world of beauty. Heaven. 7. Mount up on high! as if on eagle's wings. Divine Aspirations. Of these hymns, Nos. 1, 2, 3 appeared in Nason's Congregational Hymn Book, 1857; and all, except No. 5, are in the Lyra Sacra Americana, 1868. [Rev. F.M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

1850 - 1919 Person Name: Ella W. Wilcox Hymnal Number: d57 Author of "We are strong, we are strong Though the contest be long" in Temperance Glee Book

Oliver Ditson & Co.

Publisher of "" in Temperance Glee Book

R. A. Searles

1814 - 1878 Hymnal Number: d8 Author of "We'll give a helping hand" in Temperance Glee Book Rachel Ann Searles, wife of Rev. Isaac Searles Dianne Shapiro

George W. Bungay

1818 - 1892 Hymnal Number: d34 Author of "O rally, rally, rally, rally" in Temperance Glee Book Born: July 22, 1818, Walsham le Willows, Suffolk, England. Died: July 10, 1892, Bloomfield, New Jersey. Bungay moved to America at age nine. As a young man, he married Louise Whitney of New York City, with whom he had five children. After her death, he taught school in Canada, later moved to Buffalo, New York, then founded the Independent newspaper in Ilion, New York. When the paper moved to Utica, New York, it was renamed the Central Independent. Bungay also wrote for New York Tribune under Horace Greeley, and edited the weekly journal Metropolitan. In 1849, Bungay married Catherine Herkimer, and had three children with her. Bungay was a well known lecturer, poet, abolitionist, and temperance advocate. He worked in the New York custom house (1873-87). His works include: Offhand Takings, or Crayon Sketches (New York: 1854) Traits of Representative Men, 1882 Pen Portraits of Illustrious Abstainers (National Temperance Society, 1884) The Creeds of the Bells The Poets of Queen Elizabeth’s Time © The Cyber Hymnal™. Used by permission. (www.hymntime.com)

Aaron W. Orwig

1838 - 1931 Hymnal Number: d39 Author of "From alcoholic poison free" in Temperance Glee Book Orwig, Aaron W. (1838--1931). Son of Bishop William W. Orwig. Sister Sue Hoffman also a hymnwriter. Aaron Orwig was licensed to preach in 1871 in the Ohio Conference of the Evangelical Association. Publisher of a magazine, The Living Epistle (1869-?). Resided in California before his death. --Robert S. Wilson, DNAH Archives