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Josiah Hopkins

1786 - 1862 Person Name: Josiah Hopkins Hymnal Number: d274 Author of "O turn ye [you], O turn ye [you], for why will ye [you] die" in The Union Harp and Revival Chorister. Rev ed. Hopkins, Josiah , D.D., was born at Pittsford, Vermont, April 13, 1786. From 1809 to 1830 he was pastor of a Congregational Church, at New Haven, Vermont; and from 1830 to 1848 of the First Presbyterian Church, Auburn, New York. He died at Geneva, New York, July 27, 1862. He was the editor of Conference Hymns , Auburn, 1846, and contributed hymns to the Christian Lyre , N. Y., 1830. From the latter work his hymns in common use are taken:— 1. 0 turn ye, 0 turn ye, for why will ye die. Expostulation. 2. Why sleep we, my brethren. Expostulation. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

G. W. Langford

Person Name: George W. Hangford Hymnal Number: d328 Author of "Speak gently, it is better far" in The Union Harp and Revival Chorister. Rev ed.

Elbert S. Porter

1820 - 1888 Hymnal Number: d197 Author of "In the far better land of glory and light" in The Union Harp and Revival Chorister. Rev ed. Porter, Elbert Stothoff, D.D. (October 23, 1820--February 26, 1888). Reformed Church of America. Editor Christian Intelligencer for 14 years. The Church Hymnary, 1891, gives his birth date as 1819. --Robert G. McCutchan, DNAH Archives

W. C. Tillou

Hymnal Number: d160 Author of "How sweet to reflect on the [those] joys that await me [us]" in The Union Harp and Revival Chorister. Rev ed.

T. Tabor

Hymnal Number: d269 Author of "O there is a river whose fresh waters flow" in The Union Harp and Revival Chorister. Rev ed.

H. M. Lischer

Hymnal Number: d82 Author of "Dear Father, e're we part, Now [O] let thy grace" in The Union Harp and Revival Chorister. Rev ed.

Mark Trafton

1810 - 1901 Hymnal Number: d35 Author of "Away on the banks of lif'es bright river" in The Union Harp and Revival Chorister. Rev ed. Trafton, Mark, a Representative from Mass.; b. in Bangor, Me. (then a district of Mass.), Aug. 1, 1810; ordained pastor of a church in Westfield, Mass.; d. Mar. 8, 1901