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J. Freeman Young

1820 - 1885 Person Name: John F. Young Hymnal Number: 109 Translator of "Silent Night" in Hymns to the Living God John Freeman Young (1820-1885) Born: Oc­to­ber 30, 1820, Pitts­ton, Maine. Died: No­vem­ber 15, 1885, New York Ci­ty. Buried: Old Ci­ty Cem­e­te­ry, Jack­son­ville, Flor­i­da. Young at­tend­ed Wes­ley­an Un­i­ver­si­ty, Mid­dle­town, Con­nec­ti­cut; Wes­ley­an Sem­in­a­ry, Read­field, Maine; and the Vir­gin­ia The­o­lo­gic­al Sem­in­ary, Al­ex­and­ria, Vir­gin­ia. Or­dained a Pro­test­ant Epis­co­pal min­is­ter, he served in Tex­as, Mis­sis­sip­pi, Lou­i­si­a­na, and New York, and be­came the se­cond bi­shop of Flor­i­da in 1867. His works in­clude: Carols for Christ­mas Tide (New York: Dan­i­el Da­na, Jr., 1859) Hymns and Mu­sic for the Young, 1860-61 Great Hymns of the Church (ed­it­or; pub­lished post­hu­mous­ly in 1887 by John H. Hop­kins) --www.hymntime.com/tch

John B. Wilkes

1785 - 1869 Person Name: John Wilkes Hymnal Number: 37 Arranger of "MONKLAND" in Hymns to the Living God John Bernard Wilkes (1785-1869). Not to be confused with John Wilkes (?-1882).

Jonathan Evans

1748 - 1809 Hymnal Number: 166 Author of "Hark! The Voice of Love and Mercy" in Hymns to the Living God Evans, Jonathan, born at Coventry in 1748 or 1749. He was the son of a working man, and as a youth was employed in a ribbon manufactory. About 1778 he joined the congregation at Coventry, over which the Rev. G. Burder was pastor. He began preaching at Foleshill, near Coventry, in 1782, and in 1795 he began his stated ministry there, retaining the same to his death on Aug. 31, 1809. Two biographical notices of him appeared in the Evangelical Magazine (Oct. 1809, and March 1847), and also several of his hymns. Two of his hymns appeared in Burder's Collection, 1784, and another in the 2nd edition the same year. His best known hymns are, "Come, Thou soul-transforming Spirit,” and "Hark! the voice of love and mercy;" q.v. He published no poetical work or collection of hymns. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Hugh Davies

1844 - 1907 Hymnal Number: 153 Arranger of "ARFON" in Hymns to the Living God

Scott Aniol

b. 1980 Editor of "" in Hymns to the Living God

Louise McAllister

1913 - 1960 Hymnal Number: 278 Harmonizer of "BOURBON" in Hymns to the Living God

T. L. Hately

1815 - 1867 Person Name: Thomas Legerwood Hateley, 19th cent. Hymnal Number: 82 Composer of "NENTHORN" in Hymns to the Living God T. L. Hateley wrote more than 40 psalm tunes as well as some secular music. He was the most important musical influence on the Free Church in the years after the Disruption of 1843 and appears in the great portrait of the Disruption meeting of that year. He taught thousands to sing in parts and authored many books as well as lecturing widely on the history of psalmody. Marcus Paul (Great great grand son)

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