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Georg Joseph

1630 - 1668 Person Name: G. Josephi Hymnal Number: 33 Composer of "ANGELUS" in Fellowship Hymns 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

Spencer Lane

1843 - 1903 Hymnal Number: 183 Composer of "PENITENCE" in Fellowship Hymns Spencer Lane USA 1843-1903. Born at Tilton, NH, he served in the 8th NH Infantry during the American Civil War. After the war, he studied at the New England Conservatory and taught vocal and instrumental music at Oneida and Utica, NY. He married Isabel F. (no information on children was found). He later moved to Woonsocket, RI, where he ran a music store and served as organist and directed the choir for the St. James Episcopal Church for 13 years. He moved to Monson, MA, then to Richmond, VA, and in 1896 to Baltimore, MD. In Baltimore he worked for the music firm of Sanders & Stayman and was music director at the All Saints Protestant Episcopal Church. While at Woonsocket, his pastor gave him the hymns for an evening service, one of whose tune he didn’t care for, so he composed another tune for it, ‘Penitence’. That is his only hymn contribution. He was an author and music composer: “My beloved, I’ll think of thee”, “A dream – grand march”, others. He died at Reedville, VA. John Perry

Johann G. C. Störl

1675 - 1719 Person Name: Storl Hymnal Number: 98 Composer of "MUNICH" in Fellowship Hymns Johann Georg Stoerl; b. 1675, Kirchberg; d. 1719, Stuttgart Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

F. Venua

1788 - 1872 Person Name: Venua Hymnal Number: 4 Composer of "PARK STREET" in Fellowship Hymns Frederic Marc Antoine Venua; English composer Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908 Born to an Italian family in France, Venua attended the Paris Conservatory, and studied composition in London. He directed and composed for the ballet orchestra at the King’s Theater, and belonged the British Royal Society of Musicians. He retired to Exeter in 1858. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/v/e/n/u/venua_fma.htm">Frederick Marc Antoine Venua)

Rossiter W. Raymond

1840 - 1918 Person Name: R. W. Raymond Hymnal Number: 312 Author of "Yet never alone is the Christian" in Fellowship Hymns Raymond, Rossiter Worthington, PH.D., was b. in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 27,1840. He graduated at Brooklyn Polytechnic, 1858, and also studied in Germany. He served in the Civil War of 1861-4 with the grade of Captain. Since then he has practised in New York as a consulting mining engineer. He was editor of the American Journal of Mining, and is a contributor to scientific literature. He has also written stories for children, a Paraphrase of Job, and some fugitive poetry. His hymns in common use include:— 1. Far out on the desolate billow. [God everywhere.] Written for the German tune, "Ich weiss nicht was soil es bedeuten," and published in The Plymouth Hymnal, 1894. 2. Morning red, Morning red. [Easter.] Written to the tune" Morgenroth," a German battle-song, and published in the American Book of Praise. 3. Now rest, ye pilgrim host. [Reviewing the Past.] This hymn is dated 1879, and was written for the 50th anniversary oi the Brooklyn Sunday School Union. It was included in The Plymouth Hymnal, 1891, No. 509, and, after revision by the author, in Sursum Corda, 1898, and other collections. 4. 0 Thou Who art inspiring. [Submission.] Appeared in The Plymouth Hymnal, 1894, No. 635, and later in other collections. 5. The God Who spann'd the heavens above. [Courage in Conflict.] "Written for my Sunday School, to be sung to the tune of the German patriotic song, ‘Der Gott, der Eisen wachsen liess' (by Arndt, p, 79, ii.), of which my first line is an evident and intentional imitation, though the remainder is not" (Author's MS.). It was published in The Book of Praise, the Sursum Corda, 1898, and others. It is sometimes attributed to "J. Clark,” but in error. 6. There dwelt in old Judaea. In Allon's Children's Worship, 1878. Of the above Nos. 1, 2, 5 are in W. B. Bradbury's Clarion, 1867. Dr. Raymond is a Congregationalist, and is associated with the Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Theodore Chickering Williams

1855 - 1915 Person Name: Theodore C. Williams Hymnal Number: 252 Author of "When thy heart, with joy o'erflowing" in Fellowship Hymns Williams, Theodore Chickering, an American Unitarian minister, b. at Brookline, Mass., in 1855, and educated at Harvard, 1876, and the Harvard Divinity School, 1882. He was from 1882 to 1896 pastor of All Souls, N. Y., and has been since 1899 headmaster of Hackley School, Tarrytown, N.Y. His hymns include:— 1. As the storm retreating leaves the vales in peace. [Evening.] (1888). 2. Glory to God on high . . . Let the whole creation cry. [Praise.] (1889). 3. I long did roam afar from home. [Brought Home by Christ.] (1889). 4. Lord, Who dost the voices bless. [Ordination.] (1881). 5. My heart of dust was made. [The Image of God desired.] This is Anon, in Amore Dei, but in the Index of Authors thereto it is given to this author. 6. When thy heart with joy o'erflowing. [Unity with others desired.] (1891). These facts and dates are from Mrs. Theodore C. Williams's Hymnal, Amore Dei, Boston, 1900-1904. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) =================================== Willias, Rev. Theodore Chickering. (Brookline, Massachusetts, July 2, 1855--May 6, 1915, Boston, Mass.). He graduated from Harvard College in 1876, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1882. He was ordained minister of the Unitarian Church in Winchester, Mass., in 1882, but became minister of All Souls' Church, New York, in 1883. He resigned in 1896, and spent two years in Europe. After his return he served as headmaster of Hackley School, Tarrytown, New York, 1899-1905. A classical scholar, and gifted as a poet, he published a fine metrical translation of Virgil's Aeneid, wrote a number of hymns which are religious poetry of a high order, and assisted his wife, Velma C. Williams, in compiling her Hymnal: Amore Dei, 1890, revised edition 1897. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Ebenezer Elliott

1781 - 1849 Hymnal Number: 267 Author of "When wilt Thou save the people?" in Fellowship Hymns Elliott, Ebenezer, commonly known as the "Corn Law Rhymer," was born near Rotherham, Yorkshire, 1781, and died at Barnsley, in the same county, in 1849. The greater part of his life was spent in Sheffield, where he was engaged in the iron trade, and it was in a Sheffield newspaper that many of his poetical pieces first appeared. He published:— (1) Night, a Descriptive Poem, 1818. (2) The Village Patriarch, 1829. (3) Corn Law Rhymes, 1831. (4) Poems, 1834 ; and (5) More Prose and Verse, 1850. A piece or two from these works have been adapted as hymns in some Unitarian Collections. They include "Another year is swallowed by the sea," for the old and new year. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Hugh R. Haweis

1838 - 1901 Person Name: H. R. Haweis Hymnal Number: 290 Author of "The homeland! O the homeland!" in Fellowship Hymns Born: April 3, 1838, Egham, Surrey, England. Died: January 29, 1901, St. Marylebone, London, England. Haweis’ father was John Oliver Willyams Haweis, Canon of Chichester. Hugh attended Trinity College, Cambridge, and after graduation served under Garibaldi in the Italian war of independence. He was ordained in 1861 and was curate at Bethnal Green, Westminster and Stepney. In 1866, he became perpetual curate at St. James, Marylebone. His works include: Music and Morals, 1871 My Musical Life, 1884 Travel and Talk, 1897 Old Violins, 1898 --www.hymntime.com/tch

Caroline A. Mason

1823 - 1890 Hymnal Number: 32 Author of "O God, I thank Thee for each sight" in Fellowship Hymns Mason, Caroline Atherton, née Briggs, daughter of Dr. Calvin Briggs, of Marblehead, b. there July 27, 1823, married Charles Mason, a lawyer at Fitchburg, in 1853, and d. there June 13, 1890. She published a volume of poems as Utterance: or Private Voices to the Public Heart, 1852. Her Lost Ring and other Poems was issued in 1891. Of her hymns the following are in common use:— 1. I cannot walk in darkness long. [Evening.] This begins with st. v. of her poem on eventide, "At cool of day with God I walk." In her Lost Ring, 1891, p. 165. 2. 0 God. I thank Thee for each sight. [The Joy of Living.] From her Lost Ring, Dec, 1891, p. 164, where it is entitled "A Matin Hymn," and begins "I lift the sash and gaze abroad." 3. The changing years, eternal God. [Adoration.] Written for the Bicentennial of the First Cong. Church, Marblehead, Aug. 13, 1884 (Lost Ring, 1891, p. 174). It begins "The changing centuries, O God." Of these Nos. 1 and 2 are in Putnam's Singers & Songs, 1875, pp. 464-5. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)