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Leland Bryant Ross

b. 1954 Person Name: Ros' Haruo Translator of "Ho preĝa hor'!" in TTT-Himnaro Cigneta American Baptist layman. Amateur hymnologist and polyglot. Translator of many hymns into, and author of a few in, Esperanto, as well as some hymns in English. 13 texts (incl. 3 original) in Adoru, plus two in Espero Katolika's supplement. Edited the largest online Esperanto hymnal, TTT-Himnaro Cigneta, now accessible via the Wayback Machine at archive.org, (https://web.archive.org/web/20091021113553/http://geocities.com/cigneto/pretaj.html) as well as in large part here on Hymnary.org. Lives near Seattle.

Anna P. Williams

b. 1946 Person Name: Anna Piroska Williams Translator of "Isten Hatalmas Tette!" in The Cyber Hymnal

Wilmer D. Swope

1925 - 2010 Author of "Great Shepherd of the Church" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 Born Dec. 16, 1925 in Leetonia, OH to Herman and Mabel Swope. He was a farmer and also worked at the A & P Warehouse in Salem, OH and the Buechner Residence Hall near YSU in Youngstown, OH. He served as Fairfield Township Trustee from 1970-2001. He was a member of the Midway Mennonite Church and enjoyed writing hymns and Mennonite Church history. He died in Leetonia, OH on February 1, 2010. --See Youngstown News.