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G. Murray Klepfer

1860 - 1932 Person Name: Rev. G. M. Klepfer Hymnal Number: 133 Author of "He Saves Me" in Salvation Songs Klepfer, George Murray. (Alexandria, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, 1860?--March 30, 1932, Harrisburg, Penn.). Attended Dickinson Seminary (Carlisle, Penn.); honorary D.D., Dickinson College. Ordained deacon, Methodist Episcopal Church, Central Pennsylvania Conference, 1884. Married Ida May Wilt; two sons and four daughters. Pastor of churches in Altoona, Carlisle, Harrisburg, Milton, and other central Pennsylvania cities. Taught briefly (one year?) at Union College, Barbourville, Kentucky. Lectured for three years on the Chautauqua circuit. Author of two books: The Young Man's Best Friends and A Family Quarrel. --Email from Klepfer's grandson Philip Gehring to Mary Louise VanDyke, 23 February 2001, DNAH Archives

H. B. Beegle

1818 - 1895 Person Name: Rev. H. B. Beegle Hymnal Number: 132 Author of "Keep the Hallelujahs Ringing" in Salvation Songs Henry Barnett Beegle was born on December 13, 1818. He belonged to the New Jersey Conference of the Methodist denomination at one time. He resigned from the ministry around 1875 to become the first superintendent of the Ocean Grove New Jersey Camp Meeting Association. He died on September 24 in 1895, Ocean Grove, Asbury Park, New Jersey. NN, from Find a Grave Memorial

Adaline Hohf Beery

1859 - 1929 Person Name: Adaline H. Beery Hymnal Number: 169 Author of "Living for Christ" in Salvation Songs Adaline H. Beery was born on December 20, 1859 in Hanover, Pennsylvania. Adaline’s family moved to Iowa when she was 10 years old. She attended Mount Morris College Academy, Mount Morris, Illinois and for while taught in Iowa public schools. Adaline wrote hundreds of poems, many of which appeared in Brethren periodicals and in the 1897 Poems of a Decade. She died on February 24, 1929, Kane, Illinois. NN, Hymnary editor. Source: Cyber Hymnal

J. Hoffman Batten

1866 - 1949 Person Name: Rev. J. Hoffman Batten Hymnal Number: 36 Author of "When Jesus Came My Way" in Salvation Songs James Hoffman Batten was a Methodist minister. He served the West Grove Methodist Church in Asbury Park, the Matawan Methodist Church, and other Methodist churches in New Jersey and Illinois. He later left the Methodist Church and joined the Congregationalist Church because he agreed with the teachings of the Congregationalists. He died in Anaheim, California Dianne Shapiro, from "Red Bank Register", Dec. 7, 1904, Find a Grave (findagrave.com)