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George Smart

1776 - 1867 Person Name: George T. Smart Composer of "WILTSHIRE" in Rejoice in the Lord

Person Name: J. Robertson Composer of "Fiducia" in A New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools The Southern Harmony, 1835, ascribes the tune FIDUCIA to "Robison". The same tune, in 1913, was credited to "J. Robertson" by the editor of The Good Old Songs. Whether this composer is the same as, or otherwise related to, the "J. Robison" who published a Methodist hymn book in 1873, remains unclear.

Garret Colley Wellesley, Earl of Mornington

1735 - 1781 Person Name: Mornington Composer of "KENT" in New Manual of Praise Garret Colley Wellesley, Earl of Mornington, father of the Duke of Wellington; b. Dongan, Ireland, 1735; d. there, 1781 Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

Homer N. Bartlett

1845 - 1920 Person Name: H. N. Bartlett Composer of "WILLIAMS" in The Academic Hymnal Homer Newton Bartlett, a pianist, organist and prolific composer, was considered during his lifetime to be in the front rank of American musicians. He was born on December 1845 in Olive, New York, the descendant of a long line of illustrious New Englanders. A musical prodigy from childhood, he studied piano and composition with a number of well-known teachers, including Emil Guyon and S.B. Mills, and took up his first position as a church organist at the age of fourteen. In August 1864, the summer after he turned eighteen, Bartlett enlisted as an infantryman in the 64th New York Regiment. He was mustered out the following year at the end of the war. Bartlett spent his adult life in New York City, where he was organist and musical director at two prestigious Protestant churches. For twelve years he served at the Marble Collegiate Church, the Dutch Reformed church founded by Peter Minuit, which is the oldest Protestant congregation in North America; he then moved to the Madison Avenue Baptist Church, where he remained for the next thirty-one years. At the same time, he was composing and publishing musical works in a variety of genres, from voice-and-piano pieces intended for middle-class drawing rooms to grand symphonic works such as Apollo, a “symphonic poem” based on the Iliad. He was a founding member of the American Guild of Organists, served as president of the National Association of Organists, and won a number of musical competitions, including a 1905 composition contest sponsored by the piano manufacturers Kranich & Bach. He died in April 1920. Nancy Naber, from the New York State Library/Manuscripts and Special Collections http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/pr/sc23062.pdf