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Johann Rudolf Ahle

1625 - 1673 Person Name: Johann R. Ahle Hymnal Number: 147 Composer of "[Book of books, our people's strength]" in Songs for Juniors Johann Rudolph Ahle, b. Mühlhausen, 1625; Ahle studied theology at Erfurt University. Little is known about his musical education, but be became well known as an organist while he was in Erfurt. He returned to Mühlhausen and became an organist at St. Blasius Church, he composed organ music but is know for his sacred choral music. He was the father of Johann Georg, who was also a composer and succeeded his father as organist at St. Blasius Church. Johann Rudolf became mayor of Mühlhausen late in his life and died there in 1673. Dianne Shapiro (from Bach Cantatas Website www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Ahle-Johann-Rudolf.htm)

Charlotte Alington Barnard

1830 - 1869 Person Name: Mrs. Charles Barnard Hymnal Number: 65 Composer of "[Give of your best to the Master]" in Songs for Juniors Mrs. Charles Barnard, usage: Claribel. See also Claribel, 1830-1869

E. T. Cassel

1849 - 1930 Person Name: Dr. E. T. Cassel Hymnal Number: 74 Author of "Loyalty to Christ" in Songs for Juniors

Jemima Luke

1813 - 1906 Person Name: Mrs. Jemima Luke Hymnal Number: 109 Author of "The Sweet Story of Old" in Songs for Juniors Luke, Jemima Thompson, the wife of Rev. Samuel Luke, an Independent minister of England, was the daughter of Thomas 422 Thompson, a philanthropist, and was born at Colebrook Terrace, Islington, August 19, 1813. When only thirteen years of age she began writing for the Juvenile Magazine. She published a volume titled The Female Jesuit in 1851 and A Memoir of Eliza Ann Harris, of Clifton, in 1859, but her name is known to the Christian world almost wholly through the one hymn found in this volume. Mrs. Luke died February 2, 1906. I think when I read that sweet 682 Hymn Writers of the Church, 1915, Charles Nutter =============== Luke, Jemima, née Thompson, daughter of Thomas Thompson, sometime of Bath, was born at Colebrooke Terrace, Islington, Aug. 19, 1813, and was married to the late Samuel Luke, a Congregational Minister, in 1843. She was an anonymous contributor to The Juvenile Magazine at the age of 13, and subsequently pub. several works, including The Female Jesuit, 1851; A Memoir of Eliza Ann Harris, of Clifton, 1859, &c. Mrs. Luke is known to hymnody through her hymn:— I think when I read that sweet story of old. [The Love of Jesus.] It is recorded that this hymn was composed in a stage coach in 1841, and was designed for use in the village school, near her father's seat, Poundsford Park. It was published anonymously in the Leeds Hymn Book, 1853, No. 874, in 3 stanzas of 8 lines, and has since come into use through children's hymn-books in most English-speaking countries. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

H. S. Cutler

1825 - 1902 Person Name: Henry S. Cutler Hymnal Number: 43 Composer of "[O Master workman of the race]" in Songs for Juniors Henry Stephen Cutler (b. Boston, MA, 1824; d. Boston, 1902) studied music in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1844. He moved to England, where he listened with interest to the cathedral choirs and came under the influence of the Oxford Movement. Returning to Boston in 1846, Cutler became organist of the Episcopal Church of the Advent and formed a choir of men and boys, to whom he introduced the wearing of liturgical robes. When he took a position at Trinity Church in New York City, he removed women from the choir and used the occasion of a visit by the Prince of Wales to the church to introduce his newly vested men and boys' choir. He also moved the choir from the gallery to the chancel and initiated the chanting of the psalms and the singing of part of the worship service. Cutler compiled The Psalter, with Chants (1858) and published The Trinity Psalter (1864) and Trinity Anthems (1865). Bert Polman

Alexcenah Thomas

1857 - 1910 Hymnal Number: 142 Author of "Bring Them In" in Songs for Juniors

Arthur Bardwell Patten

Person Name: A. B. Patten Hymnal Number: 167 Author of "Faith of Our Mothers" in Songs for Juniors

Georg Joseph

1630 - 1668 Person Name: Georg Josephi Hymnal Number: 21 Composer of "[At even ere the sun was set]" in Songs for Juniors Born: Probably circa 1630, Breslau, Silesia (now Wrocław, Poland). Died: Circa 1668. A musician in the service of the Prince-Bishop of Breslau in last half of the 17th Century, Joseph collaborated published five hymn volumes with Johann Scheffler. Sources Erickson, p. 325 Stulken, p. 218 Music: ANGELUS --www.hymntime.com/tch