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Anonymous

Author of "Young People All, Attention Give" in The Cyber Hymnal In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

Frederick C. Maker

1844 - 1927 Person Name: Frederick Charles Maker, 1844-1927 Composer of "JULIAN" in The Cyber Hymnal Frederick C. Maker (b. Bristol, England, August 6, 1844; d. January 1, 1927) received his early musical training as a chorister at Bristol Cathedral, England. He pursued a career as organist and choirmaster—most of it spent in Methodist and Congregational churches in Bristol. His longest tenure was at Redland Park Congregational Church, where he was organist from 1882-1910. Maker also conducted the Bristol Free Church Choir Association and was a long-time visiting professor of music at Clifton College. He wrote hymn tunes, anthems, and a cantata, Moses in the Bulrushes. Bert Polman

Andrew Grambling

1783 - 1874 Person Name: A. Grambling Composer of "MISSION" in The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion (New ed. thoroughly rev. and much enl.) William Andrew Grambling, (sometimes spelled Gramling), born in 1783 in Orangeburg County, South Carolina. He was a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He composed at least five tunes which can be found in The Southern Harmony. He died in 1874 in Cherokee County, Georgia. Dianne Shapiro, from Find a Grave website findagrave.com) and The Makers of the Sacred Harp by David Warren Steele and Richard H. Hulan (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010)

Charles Giles

1783 - 1867 Person Name: C. Giles Author of "Young people, all attention give" in Select Melodies; Comprising the Best Hymns and Spiritual Songs in Common Use, and not generally found in standard church hymn-books Giles, Charles, an American Methodist minister, was born near Fort Griswold, Connecticut, Feb. 22, 1783, entered the ministry in 1805, and died at Syracuse, N. Y., Aug. 30, 1867. His hymn, "The fading world promiscuous flows" (Heaven Anticipated), is found, in 6 stanzas of 5 lines, in James Gallagher's New Selection, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1835; and in 8 stanzas of 5 lines. From it the hymn, "This world is poor from shore to shore," in Beecher's Plymouth Collection, 1855; Dr. Hatfield's Church Hymn Book, 1872, and others, is taken. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)