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James Watson

1816 - 1880 Person Name: James Watson, 1816-1880 Composer of "HOLYROOD" in The Hymnary of the United Church of Canada

1821 - 1875 Composer of "ADRIAN" in College Hymnal John Edgar Gould USA 1821-1875. Born in Bangor, ME, he became a musician. He managed music stores in New York City and Philadelphia, PA., the latter with composer partner, William Fischer. He married Josephine Louisa Barrows, and they had seven children: Blanche, Marie, Ida, John, Josephine, Josephine, and Augusta. He compiled eight religious songbooks from 1846 thru 1869. He died while traveling in Algiers, Africa, and was buried in Philadelphia, PA. John Perry

Jonathan C. Woodman

1813 - 1894 Composer of "STATE STREET" in Book of Worship with Hymns and Tunes

G. P. Merrick

1842 - 1918 Person Name: George P. Merrick Composer of "ALDERSGATE" in Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church

Homer A. Hammontree

1884 - 1965 Person Name: Homer Hammontree Composer of "[Our times are in Thy hand]" in The Broadman Hymnal Homer Hammontree was born March 3, 1884, to Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hammontree of Greenback, Tennessee. He graduated from nearby Maryville College in 1909 and, after teaching for a short time at local institutions, attended Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois. During World War I, Hammontree served as evangelist Mel Trotter's song leader, as together they toured U.S. army camps. They continued to work together for the next nineteen years. He also worked with Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver. In 1936, Hammontree returned to Moody as head of the Music Department. He remained in this post until 1942. The same year he received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from his old alma mater, Maryville College. During World War II, he again toured the army camps and sang at evangelistic services. After the war, he both conducted his own evangelistic services and worked with other ministers, such as Paul Beckwith and Howard Hermansen. He left Chicago in 1958 and moved back to Tennessee, where he died February 2, 1965. --www2.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/GUIDES/sc040.htm

Cornelius Bryan

1775 - 1840 Person Name: Cornelius Bryan, 1775-1840 Composer of "SERENITY" in The Book of Praise

Joan Pinkston

b. 1947 Person Name: Joan J. Pinkston, 1947- Composer of "SHARALINA" in Rejoice Hymns

Robert P. Kerr

1850 - 1923 Person Name: Rev. Robert P. Kerr Composer of "GREEN ISLAND" in Hymns of the Ages Born: 1850, Greensboro, Alabama. Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery , Nashville, Tennessee. Kerr, Robert P., D.D., b. at Greensborough, Alabama, graduated at Union Theological Seminary, Va., 1873, and was ordained by the Presbytery of Lafayette, 1874. His Hymns of the Ages, a collection on conservative Evangelical lines which hardly justified its title, was published in N.Y., 1891. In it appeared his hymn,"Blessed country, home of Jesus," 1891, A later hymn, "Galilean King and Prophet," is dated 1901. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)