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Annie Wittenmyer

1827 - 1900 Person Name: Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer Hymnal Number: 82 Author of "Jesus Is Mighty to Save" in Hymns New and Old, No. 2 Sarah Ann Turner; b. 8/26/1827; d. 2/2/1900; Wittenmyer, Annie (Turner) 1827-1900; usage: Annie Wittenmyer

W. G. Fischer

1835 - 1912 Person Name: Wm. G. Fischer Hymnal Number: 82 Composer of "[All glory to Jesus be given]" in Hymns New and Old, No. 2 William Gustavus Fischer In his youth, William G. Fischer (b. Baltimore, MD, 1835; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1912) developed an interest in music while attending singing schools. His career included working in the book bindery of J. B. Lippencott Publishing Company, teaching music at Girard College, and co-owning a piano business and music store–all in Philadelphia. Fischer eventually became a popular director of music at revival meetings and choral festivals. In 1876 he conducted a thousand-voice choir at the Dwight L. Moody/Ira D. Sankey revival meeting in Philadelphia. Fischer composed some two hundred tunes for Sunday school hymns and gospel songs. Bert Polman

Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman

1843 - 1943 Hymnal Number: 127 Author of "The Shadow of the Cross" in Hymns New and Old, No. 2 Pseudonym: Grace Glenn; Lucinda M. Beal Bateman lived in Ionia, Michigan. She wrote A book of rhymes to suit the times published about 1886 by N. Chapin & Son (Chicago); Gleams of gold published about 1889, and The prohibition speaker: a collection of readings, recitations, dialogues, tableux and songs for temperance and prohibition entertainments published in 1889 by Filmore Bros. (Cincinnati). She married Zadoc Henry Bateman in 1875. They had one daughter, Grace. Dianne Shapiro, from "A book of rhymes to suit the times" and "The Genealogy of Dennis Bowen Caskey and Michelle Lynn Smith" (caskey-family.com/genhome, retrieved 7-1-2018)

D. A. Niel

Hymnal Number: 172 Arranger of "[Jerusalem, my happy home]" in Hymns New and Old, No. 2

Fronia Smith

Hymnal Number: 30 Author of "O Silvery Sea" in Hymns New and Old, No. 2

Ella Lauder

1864 - 1964 Hymnal Number: 170 Alterer of "Christ is all the World to me" in Hymns New and Old, No. 2 Ella Lauder was Editor of the Home Department of the Midland, a Chicago periodical where many of her writings appeared, both prose and poetry. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Frederic Denison

1819 - 1901 Person Name: Rev. Frederick Denison Hymnal Number: 18 Author of "Singing Through the Gates" in Hymns New and Old, No. 2 Denison, Frederic. (Stonington, Connecticut, September 28, 1819--August 16, 1901, Providence, Rhode Island). Baptist. Son of Isaac and Levina (Fish) Denison. Brown University, B.A. 1847, and M.A. Pastorates at First Baptist Church, Westerly, Rhode Island, 1847-1854; Central Baptist Church, Norwich, Connecticut, 1854-1859; Baptist Church at Central Falls, Rhode Island, 1859-1861; First Baptist Church, Westerly, Rhode Island, 1865-1871; Baptist Church oat New Haven, Connecticut, 1872-1873; Baptist Church at Woonsocket, Rhode Island, 1874-1876; and Roger Williams Baptist Church, Wanskuck, Providence, Rhode Island, for a few years after leaving Woonsocket. Army chaplain with First Rhode Island Cavalry (1861-1863), and Third Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, 1863-1864. Author of several religious and historical works, as well as a number of poems and hymns. Two collections of his hymns are Army Hymns; written for the First Regiment New England Cavalry, Providence, 1861, and Army Hymns; written for the Third Regiment, R. I. Heavy Artillery, Providence, 1861. These two little hymnals, containing eighteen and sixteen hymns respectively, have only the texts, though the tunes are suggested. While some of the hymns are well written, none could be considered great, and most have military themes or references that make them unsuitable for general usage. Other hymns by Denison are "The cross of my Lord," "Battle song," "Bethesda is open," and two hymns for young people, "Young people's rally" and "Christian endeavor." --Phillip W. Sims, DNAH Archives

Edward Roberts

Person Name: E. Roberts Hymnal Number: 109 Composer of "[There are lights by the shore of that country]" in Hymns New and Old, No. 2

C. C. Cline

1848 - 1920 Hymnal Number: 119 Composer of "[Don't keep Jesus waiting]" in Hymns New and Old, No. 2

Amos Sutton

1798 - 1854 Person Name: Sutton Hymnal Number: 168 Author of "The blissful Hope" in Hymns New and Old, No. 2 Sutton, Amos, D.D., was born at Sevenoaks, Kent, on Jan. 21, 1802. Though educated with a view to secular business, when about the age of 21 he felt constrained to offer himself for service in connection with the General Baptist Foreign Missionary Society. He was sent to India; and in the year 1825 was stationed at Cuttack, in the province of Orissa, where, with intervals during which he visited England and America, he laboured most usefully until his death on Aug. 17, 1854. He was gifted as a translator; and compiled an Uriya Dictionary, besides translating a number of English books into that language. He also prepared the first Uriya Hymn Book, 179 of the hymns being of his own composition. The degree of D.D. was conferred on him by the College of Waterville, U.S.A. On his visit to England in 1833 he composed a farewell hymn to the tune of “Auld lang syne"— "Hail sweetest, dearest tie tbat binds." (Parting.) It soon became very popular, and is still in common use. Another hymn written about the same time, entitled "The Macedonian Cry," is now almost forgotten. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)