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S. Y. Harmer

1809 - 1884 Person Name: Samuel Young Harmer Hymnal Number: d61 Author of "In that home so bright" in The Go Ye Hymnal Harmer, Samuel Young, son of Samuel Harmer, a member of the Society of Friends, was born at Germantown, Pennsylvania, Dec. 9, 1809. In 1827 he joined the American Methodist Episcopalian Church, and was engaged for several years as a Sunday School teacher and superintendent. In 1842 he became a local preacher of that body, and, in 1847, was admitted into the ministry. He has held appointments in Philadelphia and Iowa. His well-known hymn "In the Christian's home in glory" (Heaven) was written in 1856 for a camp-meeting collection which the Rev. John Gladding was then compiling. It has been slightly altered, and set to music by the Rev. W. McDonald of Boston, Massachusetts. (For these details we are indebted to Dr. Hatfield's Poets of the Church N. Y., 1884.) -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, 1907

Margarette W. Snodgrass

Hymnal Number: d137 Author of "Always be bright and joyous" in The Go Ye Hymnal

Una Locke

1820 - 1882 Person Name: Urania Locke Bailey Hymnal Number: d120 Author of "I will enter, gladly enter to a life pure and holy" in The Go Ye Hymnal Urania Locke Bailey [Una Locke] was born on November 20, 1820 in Gill, Massachusetts and died on March 25, 1882. Bailey’s works include: I Want to Be an Angel (Boston, Massachusetts: Horace Partridge, 1857) Clara, the Motherless Young Housekeeper, or, The Life of Faith (Carlton & Porter, Sunday School Union, 1860) Una’s Papa, and Other Stories (Carlton & Porter, 1867) Red Letter Days in Old England and New England (New York: Nelson & Phillips, 1871) Star Flowers (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1882) http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/b/a/i/bailey_uls.htm

Jessie Lee McHann

Hymnal Number: d157 Author of "Are you casting a shadow or light" in The Go Ye Hymnal

Luella D. Stillman

Hymnal Number: d154 Author of "Think of what mother has said" in The Go Ye Hymnal

Mathilda

Hymnal Number: d81 Author of "Thou shalt know hereafter" in The Go Ye Hymnal

W. H. Woolverton

Hymnal Number: d106 Author of "From faith to faith" in The Go Ye Hymnal

John McPherson

Hymnal Number: d5 Author of "What will the ending be" in The Go Ye Hymnal John McPherson (Late 19th Century)

J. McLean

Hymnal Number: d89 Author of "God of my salvation" in The Go Ye Hymnal

Julia S. Haskell

Hymnal Number: d99 Author of "The Macedonian cry" in The Go Ye Hymnal [Julia W. Sampson] Sampson, J. W. Miss Sampson is set forth in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878, as the author of "Weary of wandering long" (Divine Guidance Desired). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ================ Sampson, J. W., p. 1588, ii. Her hymn "Weary of wandering long" appeared in W. B. Bradbury's Golden Censer, 1864, p. 65 as by "Miss J. W. Sampson, Utica, N.Y." Other hymns with the same signature include "Sweetly sing, sweetly sing," in Bradbury's Golden Chain, 1861, p. 70, and "O, the Sabbath morning, beautiful and bright," in Happy Voice, 1865, No. 101. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ==================== 19th Century Died: After 1901. She was listed as living in her husband’s obituary in the Utica Sunday Journal, July 20, 1902. Haskell’s maiden name appears in an 1857 teacher’s directory of Utica, New York. She married Charles Freeman Haskell of Utica in 1866. An article in the July 6, 1876, issue of the Utica Daily Observer mentioned a poetry reading by her. Lyrics Heavenly Home Over the Ocean Wave Pilgrim Halting, Staff in Hand Sweetly Sing, Sweetly Sing This Life Is a Battle with Satan and Sin Weary of Wandering Long --www.hymntime.com/tch

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