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Sanford Fillmore Bennett

1836 - 1898 Person Name: Sanford F. Bennett Author of "There's a Land That Is Fairer Than Day" in Baptist Hymnal 1991 Sanford Fillmore Bennett was born in Eden, New York, 21 June 1836. He and his parents moved to Plainfield, Illinois when he was two years old. He worked on the farm and attended district school during the winter. He was a voracious reader. At sixteen he entered Waukegon Academy. Two years later he began teaching at Wauconda. In 1858 he entered the University of Michigan, Afterward he had charge of the schools in Richmond, Illinois. Two years later he resigned and became Associate Editor of the Independent at Elkhorn, Wisconsin. In 1864 he enlisted in the Wisconsin Volunteers and served as Second Lieutenant. After the war he returned to Elkhorn and opened a drug store and began the study of medicine. He graduated from Rush Medical College in 1874. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

C. H. Bottoms

1878 - 1940 Person Name: Claude H. Bottoms Author of "Eternity" in Excellent Songs Claud Henry Bottoms was born on April 13, 1878 in Fayette County, Georgia. He was educated in the public schools and began studying music under J. M. York and later under J. Henry Showalter. After attending two sessions of the Southern Normal Musical Institute (SNMI), he received his diploma at the special session held in Dalton, Georgia, in 1902. He began teaching in 1901, the year his first music was published in Our Thankful Songs. He died on February 2, 1940 in Atlanta, Georgia. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

W. G. Fischer

1835 - 1912 Person Name: Wm. G. Fischer Composer of "[There's a land that is fairer than day]" in Young Men's Christian Association Hymn and Tune Book 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

Joseph Philbrick Webster

1819 - 1875 Person Name: Joseph P. Webster, 1819-1875 Composer of "[There's a land that is fairer than day]" in Hymnal of the Church of God Webster composed and performed popular music. He studied with Lowell Mason and was active musically in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, and directed a quartet company called the Euterpeans. In 1851, he moved to Madison, Indiana, followed by Chicago, Illinois (1855); Racine, Wisconsin (1856); and finally Elkhorn, Wisconsin (1859). Webster wrote over a thousand ballads and many hymns. His most famous secular song was his 1857 Lorena (words by Henry D. L. Webster). In its day, it was said to have been second in popularity only to Stephen Foster’s Suwanee River, and was sung by thousands of soldiers on both sides of the American civil war. An instrumental version appears in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, when Scarlett O’Hara is manning the stall at the charity dance in her mourning outfit. The tune also made an appearance in two John Ford films: The Searchers, 1956, arranged by Max Steiner, and The Horse Soldiers, 1959, arranged by David Buttolph. (http://www.hymntime.com/tch)

C. C. Cline

1848 - 1920 Arranger of "[There's a land that is fairer than day]" in Popular Hymns Number 2

John E. Gould

1821 - 1875 Person Name: J. E. Gould Composer of "[There's a land that is fairer than day]" in Songs of Gladness for the Sabbath School John Edgar Gould USA 1821-1875. Born in Bangor, ME, he became a musician. He managed music stores in New York City and Philadelphia, PA., the latter with composer partner, William Fischer. He married Josephine Louisa Barrows, and they had seven children: Blanche, Marie, Ida, John, Josephine, Josephine, and Augusta. He compiled eight religious songbooks from 1846 thru 1869. He died while traveling in Algiers, Africa, and was buried in Philadelphia, PA. John Perry