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A. H. Mann
1850 - 1929 Person Name: A. H. Mann, Mus. Bac. Composer of "ST. ASAPH" in Sunday-School Book Arthur Henry ‘Daddy’ Mann MusB MusD United Kingdom 1850-1929. Born at Norwich, Norfolk, England, he graduated from New College, Oxford. He married Sarah Ransford, and they had five children: Sarah, Francis, Arthur, John, and Mary. Arthur died in infancy. Mann was a chorister and assistant organist at Norwich Cathedral, then, after short stints playing the organ at St Peter’s, Wolverhampton (1870-71); St. Michael’s Tettenhall Parish Church (1871-75); and Beverley Minster (1875-76); he became organist at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge (1876-1929), Cambridge University organist (1897-1929), and music master and organist at the Leys School, Cambridge (1894-1922). In addition to composing an oratorio and some hymn tunes, he was music editor of the Church of England Hymnal (1894). In 1918 he directed the music and first service of “Nine lessons & carols” at King’s College Chapel. He was an arranger, author, composer, and editor. His wife, Sarah, died in 1918. He died at Cambridge, England.
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A. H. Mann
T. F. Seward
1835 - 1902 Person Name: Theo. F. Seward Composer of "[Happy are we, God's own little flock]" in Westminster Sabbath School Hymnal, a collection of hymns and tunes for use in sabbath-schools and social meetings
T. F. Seward
Mrs. Herrick Johnson
1835 - 1907 Author of "Happy are we, God's own little flock" in Sunday-School Book Johnson, Catherine, wife of the Rev. Herrick Johnson, D.D., a Presbyterian minister in Chicago, is the author of “An earthly temple here we build" (Laying Foundation Stone of a Place of Worship), which in Hatfield's Church Hymns, N. Y., 1872, is dated 1866. Another hymn by this author is given in an abridged form in Stryker's Church Song, N. Y., 1889, as "The whole wide world for Jesus." Sometimes dated May 9, 1872.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Johnson, Catherine, née Hardenbergh, p. 1575, i. Mrs. Johnson, daughter of John H. Hardenbergh, was b. at Auburn, N.Y., in 1835, and m. in 1860. Her hymn, "An earthly temple here we build," was written in Pittsburgh for the dedication of a church in 1866; and her "The whole wide world for Jesus," on May 9, 1872, for a meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of Baltimore. Her children's hymn, "We are so happy, God's own little flock," is widely used in America. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Mrs. Herrick Johnson
Benjamin C. Blodgett
1838 - 1925 Person Name: B. C. Blodgett Composer of "[Happy are we, God's own little flock]" in Hosanna for the Sunday School
Benjamin C. Blodgett
Katherine H. Johnson
Person Name: Mrs. K. H. Johnson Author of "Happy are we, God's own little flock" in Hosanna for the Sunday School
Katherine H. Johnson
