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Oscar Dismuke

Arranger of "HUDSON" in Zion still Sings

John Morison

1750 - 1798 Author of "Alas! and did my Savior bleed" in The New Baptist Psalmist and Tune Book Morison, John, D.D., was born in Aberdeenshire in 1749. He studied at the University of Aberdeen (King's College), where he graduated M.A. in 1771. In 1780 he became parish minister of Canisbay, Caithness. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1792. He died at Canisbay, June 12, 1798. He was one of the members added on May 26, 1781, to the Committee appointed by the General Assembly of 1775 to revise the Translations and Paraphrases of 1745. To him are ascribed Nos. 19, 21, 29, 30 and 35, in the 1781 collection, and he is said to have been joint author with John Logan of Nos. 27 and 28. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Julia Morgan

Harmonizer of "MARTYRDOM" in The United Methodist Hymnal Music Supplement II

Janet W. Young

Reharmonizer of "ABNEY" in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Leonard P. Breedlove

1801 - 1900 Composer of "VICTORIA" in The Sacred Harp Breedlove served on the 1849-50 com­mit­tee for the Sac­red Harp mu­sic­al con­ven­tion. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

F. A. Clark

1868 - 1948 Author of "The Blood of Calvary" in Songs of the Pilgrim Way F. A. Clark (Francis A.) was a respected Black musician and composer from Philadelphia. Dianne Shapiro, from "Charles Albert Tindley: Progenitor of Black-American Gospel Music," by Horace Clarence Boyer, in The Black Perspective in Music Vol. 11, No. 2 (Autumn, 1983), pp. 103-132 (retrieved online from JSTOR, 8/27/2020)

R. G. Staples

b. 1833 Composer of "[Alas! and did my Saviour bleed]" in Loving Voices Robert Griffin Staples. He was born Robert Griffin on January 24, 1833 in Washington DC. Both of his parents died in a carriage accident when he was an infant; he was then adopted by his mother's sister, Mary Ann King, and her husband, Samuel Johnson Staples and he was given the name Robert Griffin Staples. He was a captain in the Union Army during the Civil War and after the war was promoted to Major. He then worked as chief clerk in the Portsmouth United States Navy Yard. Religion was an important part of his life, as well as music. He died June 20, 1891 in Portsmouth, VA. Dianne Shapiro, from Jean Brickey (great-granddaughter)

Emilius Laroche

Person Name: E. Laroche Arranger of "[Alas! and did my Saviour bleed?]" in Light and Life Pseudonym. See also McIntosh, R. M. (Rigdon M), 1836-1889

Phil. V. S. Lindsley

Arranger of "[Alas! and did my Saviour bleed]" in National Jubilee Melodies

John Palmer Reese

1828 - 1900 Person Name: J. P. Reese Composer of "LOVE THE LORD" in The Sacred Harp John Palmer "Ripples" Reese was born in Jasper County, Georgia. After service in the Civil War as a member of the 37th Georgia Infantry, he spent most of his life as a composer and singing instructor in the Sacred Harp movement. He was a revisor for the 1859 edition of The Sacred Harp. He was president of the Chattahoochee Convention. Reese died in 1900, in Newnan, Georgia. Antonio Higgins

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