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Geo. B. Holsinger

1857 - 1908 Person Name: George B. Holsinger, 1857-1908 Meter: 12.12.12.12 with refrain Composer of "AT THE SAVIOUR'S RIGHT HAND" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 Used pseudonym H. B. Groengils *************** Born: May 10, 1857, St. Clair Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Died: November 22, 1908, Astoria, Illinois. Holsinger was music director of Bridgewater College, Virginia (1882-98), and music editor for the Church of the Brethren (1898-1908). His works include: Song Praises (Elgin, Illinois: Brethren Publishing House, 1906) Psalms and Hymns (associate editor) Lyrics-- I Lift My Heart Today in Praise Little Ones Like Me Not Far from the Kingdom of Heaven Our Country’s Needs Are Pleading Music-- BEAUTIFUL HOMELAND I’LL COUNT MY BLESSINGS © The Cyber Hymnal™ (hymntime.com/tch)

Martha Miller

Meter: 12.12.12.12 with refrain Composer of "TENDER LOVE OF JESUS" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4

Bernardo Velado Graña

1922 - 2012 Person Name: Bernardo Velado Graña, 1922-2012 Meter: 12.12.12.12 with refrain Translator (Spanish verses) of "Where True Love and Charity Are Found (Ubi Caritas) (Donde Hay el Amor y la Caridad)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Ronald F. Krisman

Person Name: Ronald F. Krisman, b. 1946 Meter: 12.12.12.12 with refrain Translator (Spanish refrain) of "Where True Love and Charity Are Found (Ubi Caritas) (Donde Hay el Amor y la Caridad)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Cleavant Derricks

1910 - 1977 Person Name: Cleavant Derricks, 1909-1977 Meter: 12.12.12.12 with refrain Author of "I Once Was Lost in Sin (Just a Little Talk with Jesus)" in African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal

Lizzie De Armond

1847 - 1936 Person Name: Lizzie DeArmond Meter: 12.12.12.12 with refrain Author of "Se Teu Coração Estiver em Paz" Lizzie De Armond was a prolific writer of children's hymns, recitations and exercises. When she was twelve years old her first poem was published in the Germantown, Pa. Telegraph, however, it was not until she was a widow with eight children to support that she started writing in earnest. She wrote articles, librettos, nature stories and other works, as well as hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

E. R. Latta

1839 - 1915 Person Name: Eden R. Latta, b. 1839 Meter: 12.12.12.12 with refrain Author of "In the Day of All Days" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 Rv Eden Reeder Latta USA 1839-1915. Born at Haw Patch, IN, the son of a Methodist minister, (also a boyhood friend of hymn writer Willam A Ogden) he became a school teacher. During the American Civil War he preached for the Manchester Methodist Church and other congregations (possibly as a circuit rider filling empty pulpits). In 1863 he married Mary Elizabeth Wright, and they had five children: Arthur, Robert, Jennie, two others. He taught for the public schools of Manchester, and later Colesburg, IA. He moved to Guttenberg, IA, in the 1890s, and continued writing song lyrics for several major gospel composers, including William Ogden, James McGranahan, James Fillmore, and Edmund Lorenz. He wrote 1600+ songs and hymns, many being widely popular in his day. His older brother, William, composed hymn tunes. He died at Guttenbert, IA. John Perry

Richard Proulx

1937 - 2010 Person Name: Richard Proulx, b. 1937 Meter: 12.12.12.12 with refrain Translator of "Where True Love and Charity Are Found" in Gather Comprehensive Richard Proulx (b. St. Paul, MN, April 3, 1937; d. Chicago, IL, February 18, 2010). A composer, conductor, and teacher, Proulx was director of music at the Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago, Illinois (1980-1997); before that he was organist and choirmaster at St. Thomas' Episcopal Church in Seattle, Washington. He contributed his expertise to the Roman Catholic Worship III (1986), The Episcopal Hymnal 1982, The United Methodist Hymnal (1989), and the ecumenical A New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools (1992). He was educated at the University of Minnesota, MacPhail College of Music in Minneapolis, Minnesota, St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, and the Royal School of Church Music in England. He composed more than 250 works. Bert Polman

Gregory Murray

1905 - 1992 Person Name: A. Gregory Murray. b. 1905 Meter: 12.12.12.12 with refrain Composer of "UBI CARITAS (MURRAY)" in The Hymnal 1982

Carl P. Daw Jr.

b. 1944 Person Name: Carl P. Daw, Jr. Meter: 12.12.12.12 with refrain Author of "Where True Charity and Love Dwell" in New Hymns of Hope Carl P. Daw, Jr. (b. Louisville, KY, 1944) is the son of a Baptist minister. He holds a PhD degree in English (University of Virginia) and taught English from 1970-1979 at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. As an Episcopal priest (MDiv, 1981, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennesee) he served several congregations in Virginia, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. From 1996-2009 he served as the Executive Director of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Carl Daw began to write hymns as a consultant member of the Text committee for The Hymnal 1982, and his many texts often appeared first in several small collections, including A Year of Grace: Hymns for the Church Year (1990); To Sing God’s Praise (1992), New Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1996), Gathered for Worship (2006). Other publications include A Hymntune Psalter (2 volumes, 1988-1989) and Breaking the Word: Essays on the Liturgical Dimensions of Preaching (1994, for which he served as editor and contributed two essays. In 2002 a collection of 25 of his hymns in Japanese was published by the United Church of Christ in Japan. He wrote Glory to God: A Companion (2016) for the 2013 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Emily Brink