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Andrew Jenkins

Meter: 10.8.10.8 with refrain Author of "God Put a Rainbow in the Cloud" in Songs of Faith and Praise

1826 - 1882 Person Name: Mary B. C. Slade, 1826-1882 Meter: 10.8.10.8 with refrain Author of "Gathering Home" in Sacred Songs of the Church Mary Bridges Canady Slade USA 1826-1882. Born in Fall River, MA, she was well-educated and became a minister's wife, teacher, and poet. She was assistant editor of The New England Journal of Education. She also authored hymns, Sunday school materials and books on education, primarily used for training teachers. She authored a children's magazine, “Wide-awake”. She and her husband were active in the underground railroad (helping slaves achieve their freedom). She spent her whole life living in the same town. John Perry

Bill Thomas

Meter: 10.8.10.8 with refrain Arranger of "SWING LOW" in Chalice Hymnal

D. W. Whittle

1840 - 1901 Meter: 10.8.10.8 with refrain Author of "Yo sé a quién he creído" [Also published under the pseudonym El Nathan.] =============== Whittle, D. W.. Six of his hymns (Nos. 295, 308,363, 385, 386, 417) are given in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, under the signature of "El Nathan." --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Henry P. Morton

Meter: 10.8.10.8 with refrain Composer of "[There are days so dark that I seek in vain]" in Timeless Truths

James Chepponis

b. 1956 Person Name: James J. Chepponis, b. 1956C Meter: 10.8.10.8 with refrain Author of "With a Shepherd's Care" in Worship (4th ed.)

I. N. McHose

b. 1831 Meter: 10.8.10.8 with refrain Author of "O, the Great Love the Dear Saviour Has Shown" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 McHose, Isaac N. Born 1831/1832, Hellerstown, Pennsylvania. Some speculation on his identity. Co-editor with Kurzenknabe and Bentley on Gospel Trio of Sacred Song (1891). --Letters, family trees in DNAH Archives

David William Hodges

Meter: 10.8.10.8 with refrain Author of "Tem Misericórida de Mim, Senhor" in Hinário para o Culto Cristão David William Hodges was born in Kansas City, Missouri, December 22, 1942. He has music degrees (B.A., M.A. in voice) from Central Missouri State College (Warrensburg, MO) and a Master's degree in religious education from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Kansas City, MO) and studied in the doctoral program at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Fort Worth, TX). After serving several churches in Missouri, Florida and Texas, he and his family were appointed as missionaries to Brazil under the Foreign (now International) Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. They served from 1980 until retirement in 2010, principally as a professor of voice and conducting in three different Baptist seminaries. He was a member of the hymnal committee that produced the O Hinario para o Culto Cristao in 1991, which contains several of his original hymns (music and lyrics) and translations. He and his wife, Ramona Gay Miller Hodges, live on Jekyll Island, Georgia (2018). David William Hodges

John R. Sweney

1837 - 1899 Person Name: John Robson Sweney Meter: 10.8.10.8 with refrain Composer of "[My soul shouts glory to the Son of God]" John R. Sweney (1837-1899) was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and exhibited musical abilities at an early age. At nineteen he was studying with a German music teacher, leading a choir and glee club, and performing at children’s entertainments. By twenty-two he was teaching at a school in Dover, Delaware. Soon thereafter, he was put in charge of the band of the Third Delaware Regiment of the Union Army for the duration of the Civil War. After the war, he became Professor of Music at the Pennsylvania Military Academy, and director of Sweney’s Cornet Band. He eventually earned Bachelor and Doctor of Music degrees at the Academy. Sweney began composing church music in 1871 and became well-known as a leader of large congregations. His appreciators stated “Sweney knows how to make a congregation sing” and “He had great power in arousing multitudes.” He also became director of music for a large Sunday school at the Bethany Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia of which John Wanamaker was superintendent (Wanamaker was the founder of the first major department store in Philadelphia). In addition to his prolific output of hymn melodies and other compositions, Sweney edited or co-edited about sixty song collections, many in collaboration with William J. Kirkpatrick. Sweney died on April 10, 1899, and his memorial was widely attended and included a eulogy by Wanamaker. Joe Hickerson from "Joe's Jottings #9" used by permission

Emmett S. Dean

1876 - 1951 Person Name: Emmet S. Dean Meter: 10.8.10.8 with refrain Composer of "IN THE GLORYLAND" in African American Heritage Hymnal Born: June 29, 1876, Conecuh County, Alabama. Died: October 8, 1951, Waco, Texas. Buried: Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, Texas. A Methodist, Dean taught singing schools for 40 years, wrote some 500 songs, and for four years headed the Trio Music Company. With Franklin Eiland and Homer Elliott, he founded the Southern Development Normal Music School in Waco, Texas. --www.hymntime.com/tch/