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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman (1839-1929) Author of "I Must Tell Jesus" in Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke ============ Hoffman, Elisha Albright, author of "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?" (Holiness desired), in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1881, was born in Pennsylvania, May 7, 1839. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ==============

Anonymous

Person Name: Anónimo Vers. esp. of "Debo decir a Cristo" in Himnario Adventista del Séptimo Día In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

George P. Simmonds

1890 - 1991 Person Name: G. P. Simmonds Translator of "Diré a Cristo Todas Mis Pruebas" in El Nuevo Himnario Popular (Edicion Revisada y Corregida) Used pseudonyms G Paul S., J. Paul Simon, and J. Pablo Símon

Solomon L. Ginsburg

1867 - 1927 Person Name: Salomão Luiz Ginsburg, 1867-1927 Translator of "A Jesus Cristo Contarei Tudo" in Hinário para o Culto Cristão Born in Poland in 1867, Ginsburg was a Baptist pastor and missionary to Brazil for thirty-five years. He wrote A Wandering Jew in Brazil: An Autobiography