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Mildred S. Johnson

Person Name: Mrs. Mildred S. Johnson Hymnal Number: 128 Composer of "[I want to live over yonder in that land, on the bright and golden strand]" in Majestic Melodies

Vernon R. Barrow

Person Name: V. R. B. Hymnal Number: 9 Author of "The City Above" in Majestic Melodies

Shirlene Walker

Person Name: S. W. Hymnal Number: 52 Author of "Brother, You'd Bett Get Ready" in Majestic Melodies

Marie Barkley

Hymnal Number: 2 Composer of "[So many people now, it seems, are getting tired of life]" in Majestic Melodies

Walter C. Carter

Person Name: W. C. C. Hymnal Number: 100 Author of "Mother's Love" in Majestic Melodies

J. E. Marsh

Person Name: J. E. M. Hymnal Number: 16 Author of "Does the World Need Jesus?" in Majestic Melodies

James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Hymnal Number: 63 Author of "Gathering Buds" in Majestic Melodies Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Willie Willmurth

Person Name: W. W. Hymnal Number: 28 Author of "Beyond the Clouds of Sorrow" in Majestic Melodies

W. H. Nelson

Hymnal Number: 29 Composer of "[Fear not, O soul, along life's way]" in Majestic Melodies

Alfred Barratt

1879 - 1968 Person Name: Rev. Dr. Alfred Barratt Hymnal Number: 20 Author of "Let Your Own Light Shine" in Majestic Melodies Barratt, Alfred. (New Springs, Wigan, Lancashire, England, October 25, 1879--December, 1968). Coming to the United States as a young man, he studied at Gordon College, Massachusetts, and Newton Theological Seminary, Mass. He was ordained in December, 1913, by the Baptists in Connecticut, then by the Wheeling WV Presbytery, Presbyterian Church in the USA, in 1924. He was pastor of Dallas, West Virginia, then of a series of churches in the Presbytery of Clarion, Pennsylvania. In 1937 he was awarded the Doctor of Literature degree by Bob Jones College. On November 26, 1962, he wrote the undersigned: "For 39 long years I have labored hard and steady writing sermons, children's story sermons, and hymns. Up to the present day I have written 4,477 hymns. 80 percent of my sermons are published in books and magazines." --William J. Reynolds, DNAH Archives

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