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Hall, Jacob Henry
Biography of gospel song and hymn writers
New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1914, 419 p.


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  Adams, Carrie Bell (b. 1859 d. 1940)   organ, teacher
  Ashford, Emma Louise (b. 1850 d. 1930)   composer
  Baltzell, Isaiah (b. 1832 d. 1893)  
  Bliss, Philip Paul (b. 1838 d. 1876)   itinerant Baptist music teacher, hymn composer
  Bradbury, William Batchelder (b. 1816 d. 1868)   composer, organ
  Case, Charles Clinton (b. 1843)   musician, educator
  Cassel, Flora Hamilton (b. 1852 d. 1911)   composer, piano
  Christie, Harvey Robert (b. 1848)  
  Crosby, Fanny Jane (b. 1820 d. 1915)   poet, hymn writer
  Cushing, William Orcutt (b. 1823 d. 1902)   hymnologist
  Davis, Frank M. (b. 1839 d. ERR1>)   cast, composer
  Doane, William Howard (b. 1832 d. 1915)   psalmodist
  Emerson, Luther Orlando (b. 1820 d. 1915)   composer, writer
  Everett, Asa Brooks (b. 1828 d. 1875)   composer, hymn compiler
  Everett, B.H.  
  Everett, L.C. (b. 1818 d. 1867)   musician, educator
  Everett, N.E.  
  Excell, Edwin Othello (b. 1851 d. 1921)   composer, lyricist
  Fearis, John Sylvester (b. 1867 d. 1932)   composer, conductor
  Fillmore, Charles Millard (b. 1860)   composer
  Fillmore, Frederick Augustus (b. 1856)   composer
  Fillmore, James Henry (b. 1849 d. 1936)   publisher, gospel song composer
  Fischer, William Gustavus (b. 1835 d. 1912)   teacher, conductor
  Gabriel, Charles Hutchison (b. 1856 d. 1932 a. 1901)   compiler of gospel hymns
  Giffe, William Thomas (b. 1848)   composer, supervisor
  Hackleman, W.E.M. (b. 1868)  
  Hall, Jacob Henry (b. 1855)  
  Hall, Joseph Lincoln (b. 1866)  
  Harkness, Robert (b. 1877 d. 1961)  
  Herbert, John Bunyan (b. 1852)   singer, comic actor
  Hewitt, Eliza Edmunds Stites (b. 1851 d. 1920)   hymn writer
  Hoffman, Elisha Albright (b. 1839 d. 1929)   hymn writer
  Holsinger, George B. (b. 1857 d. 1908)   composer, teacher
  Hugg, George C. (b. 1848 d. 1907)  
  Jones, Harriet E. (b. 1823)   hymn writer
  Kieffer, Aldine Sillman (b. 1840 d. 1904)   composer, compiler of songbooks
  Kirkpatrick, William James (b. 1838 d. 1921)   composer, compiler of gospel hymn collections
  Kurzenknabe, J.H. (b. 1840)  
  Latta, Eden Reeder (b. 1938)  
  Lincoln, Horace Neely (b. 1859)   composer
  Lorenz, Edmund Simon (b. 1854 d. 1942)   composer
  Lowry, Robert (b. 1826 d. 1899)   composer, compiler of Sunday school songs
  Main, Hubert Platt (b. 1839 d. 1925)   composer, hymn writer
  Mason, Lowell (b. 1792 d. 1872)   composer, anthologist
  McGranahan, James (b. 1854)   composer, musician
  McGranahan, James (b. 1840 d. 1907)   singer, hymn compiler
  McIntosh, Rigdon McCoy (b. 1836 d. 1899)   teacher, composer
  Meredith, Isaac H. (b. 1872 d. 1962)   composer
  Murray, James Ramsey (b. 1842 d. 1905)   editor, teacher
  Newell, Laura E. Pixley (b. 1854 d. 1916)   composer, hymnologist
  O'Kane, Tullius Clinton (b. 1830 d. 1912)   composer, hymnist
  Oatman, Johnson (b. 1856 d. 1926)   composer, lyricist
  Ogden, William Augustine (b. 1841 d. 1897)   composer
  Palmer, Horatio Richmond (b. 1834 d. 1907 a. 1861-1874)   composer, musician
  Perkins, Henry Southwick (b. 1833 d. 1914)   composer, music educator
  Perkins, Theodore Edson (b. 1831)   composer, teacher
  Phillips, Philip (b. 1834 d. 1895)   evangelist singer
  Prior, Charles Edward (b. 1856)   composer, banker
  Reed, Ida L. (b. 1865)   composer
  Rexford, Eben S. (b. 1848 d. 1916)   composer, journalist
  Root, George Frederick (b. 1820 d. 1895)   composer, music educator
  Rosche, George F. (b. 1855)   composer
  Rosencrans, James Holmes (b. 1844)   composer
  Sankey, I. Allan (b. 1874)   composer
  Sankey, Ira David (b. 1840 d. 1908)   evangelist singer, song leader
  Seward, Theodore Frelinghuysen (b. 1835 d. 1902)   composer, musician
  Showalter, A.J. [Anthony Johnson] (b. 1858 d. 1924)   composer, tunebook compiler
  Stebbins, George Coles (b. 1846 d. 1945)   evangelistic song leader, composer
  Sweney, John R. (b. 1837 d. 1899)   evangelistic song leader, composer of gospel hymns
  Tenney, John Harrison (b. 1840)   composer
  Thompson, Will Lamartine (b. 1847 d. 1909)   composer, songwriter
  Tillman, Charles D. (b. 1861 d. 1837)   composer
  Towne, T. Martin (b. 1835)   composer
  Towner, Daniel Brink (b. 1850 d. 1919)   composer of gospel hymns
  Tullar, Grant Colfax (b. 1869 d. 1950)   composer
  Unseld, Benjamin Carl (b. 1843)   composer
  Whittle, Daniel Webster (b. 1840 d. 1901)   evangelist, writer of gospel hymn texts
  Wilson, Ira B. (b. 1880 d. 1950)   composer, arranger
  Wilson, Jennie (b. 1857 d. 1913)   hymn writer

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