1875 - 1939 Person Name: De Loss Smith Hymnal Number: 174 Composer of "[Come friends sing of the faith that's so dear to me]" in Christ Exalted in Song Smith, DeLoss. (1875?--March 16, 1939, Missoula, Montana). Attended Eureka College, Illinois. Associated with William H. Boles and Charles Reign Scoville. Moved to New York City in 1907; director of music at Central Church, New York City, and Central Church, Des Moines, Iowa. Joined the music faculty at Columbia University, and in 1915 was elected to position of dean at the School of Music at the University of Montana at Missoula.
--Tina Schneider, from obituary in the DNAH Archives
DeLoss Smith