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A. B. Simpson

1843 - 1919 Person Name: Rev. A. B. Simpson Hymnal Number: 98 Author of "Yesterday, Today, Forever" in Spirit Filled Songs For Singing Youth Albert B. Simpson was the founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance. Dianne Shapiro

George Keith

1638 - 1716 Hymnal Number: 157 Author of "How Firm a Foundation" in Spirit Filled Songs For Singing Youth George Keith, according to D. Sedgwick, was the author of "How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord." Little is known about Keith, save that he was a publisher, a son-in-law of Dr. Gill, and the composer of several hymns. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.

Ira F. Stanphill

1920 - 1993 Person Name: Ira Stanphill Hymnal Number: 16 Author of "I Know Who Holds Tomorrow" in Spirit Filled Songs For Singing Youth

Alfred B. Smith

1916 - 2001 Hymnal Number: 174 Composer of "[For God so loved the world, He gave His only Son]" in Spirit Filled Songs For Singing Youth Used pseudonym B. C. Laurelton ---------- In 1930, he began playing on radio broadcasts in Jersey City, New Jersey, on "The Old Fashioned Gospel Hour." After meeting Wendell P. Loveless, Alfred enrolled at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and became a member of the WMBI staff. During service as Minister of Music at The Church of the Open Door in Philadelphia, he taught at The Philadelphia School of the Bible in the fall of 1938. During that year, he wrote "For God So Loved the World" after visiting the ninety-four year-old hymn writer George C. Stebbins. Smith met Billy Graham when they were both students at Wheaton College. During their long collaboration, they founded Singspiration in 1941. After graduating from Wheaton, Smith, Graham, and George Beverly Shea started "Youth for Christ" in Chicago. --Daniel Mahraun (from livinghymns.org)

Herbert Buffum

1879 - 1939 Hymnal Number: 40 Author of "He Abides" in Spirit Filled Songs For Singing Youth Herbert Buffum was born in La Fayette, Illinois 13 November 1879. He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He started preaching at seventeen years of age. He did city mission work up and down the Pacific Coast and later in small towns in Kansas. He began publishing hymns at the age of eighteen. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

John J. Husband

1760 - 1825 Person Name: J. J. Husband Hymnal Number: 137 Composer of "[We praise Thee, O God! for the Son of Thy love]" in Spirit Filled Songs For Singing Youth Rv John Jenkins Husband United Kingdom 1760-1825. Born in Plymouth, England, he worked as a clerk at Surrey Chapel. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1809 and taught music in Philadelphia, PA. It is surmised that he married Anna Elizabeth Kirkhum, but no other family information was found. An author and composer, he also worked as a clerk at St. Paul’s Protestant Episcopal Church. In 1807 he published “A collection of hymns & Psalms for the use of singing school & musical societies”. He died in Philadelphia, PA. John Perry

W. Elmo Mercer

1932 - 2020 Person Name: W. E. M. Hymnal Number: 11 Author of "Each Step I Take" in Spirit Filled Songs For Singing Youth William Elmo Mercer wrote more than 1,600 songs and worked extensively as a music arranger. Arguably his best known song is “Each Step I Take." Mercer worked for the John T. Benson company from 1951 to 1981 as a music editor. He also consulted for LifeWay, Lorenz, Brentwood, and other music companies. He and his wife Marcia traveled as singing evangelists for three decades and he served as the music minister for Scottsboro First Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee. Monty Lynn, from "William Elmo Mercer," Southern Gospel History, https://www.sghistory.com/

Phoebe Palmer

1807 - 1874 Person Name: Mrs. Phoebe Palmer Hymnal Number: 128 Author of "The Cleansing Wave" in Spirit Filled Songs For Singing Youth Palmer, Phoebe, an American Methodist, b. 1807, and d. in 1874, wrote "Blessed Bible! how I love thee" (Holy Scriptures), and “O! when shall I sweep through the gates" (Heaven Anticipated). The latter is in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1878. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

El Nathan

1840 - 1901 Hymnal Number: 44 Author of "I Know Whom I Have Believed" in Spirit Filled Songs For Singing Youth Pseudonymn used by D. W. Whittle. See also Whittle, D. W. (Daniel Webster), 1840-1901

W. McDonald

1820 - 1901 Person Name: Wm. McDonald Hymnal Number: 117 Author of "I Am Coming to the Cross" in Spirit Filled Songs For Singing Youth McDonald, Rev. William. (Belmont, Maine, March 1, 1820--September 11, 1901, Monrovia, California). Becoming a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1839 he was admitted to the Maine Conference in 1843, being transferred to that of Wisconsin in 1855 and of New England in 1859. For a number of years he was editor of the Advocate of Christian Holiness. In addition to being a writer of biographies and religious books, he compiled, or assisted in compiling, a number of song books of the gospel song type, among them being the Western Minstrel (1840), Wesleyan Minstrel (1853), Beulah Songs (1870), Tribute of Praise (1874). This last book was that which had been compiled by McDonald and L.F. Snow, and re-edited by Eben Tourjée, appeared in 1882 as the official hymnal of the Methodist Protestant Church. From 1870 he spent many years in evangelistic work before his retirement to Monrovia. Sources: Metcalf, Frank J., American Writers and Compilers of Sacred Music; Tillett, Wilbur F., Our Hymns and Their Authors; Nutter and Tillett, Hymns and Hymn Writers of the Church; McCutchan, Robert G., Our Hymnody; Benson, L.F., The English Hymn. --Robert G. McCutchan, DNAH Archives