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Victor H. Benke
1872 - 1904 Composer of "[O Lord, be thou my stay]" in Loyal Praise Victor H. Benke was born on July 1872, Ratibor, Germany (now Racibórz, Poland). He emigrated to America at the of age 21. He served as the regular organist at the Bowery Mission in New York City for a number of years. He settled in Brooklyn where he gave piano and organ lessons and composed music. He worked with Fanny Crosby, who wrote words to a number of his pieces, and Ira Sankey. He also played the organ for Dwight Moody in his evangelistic work. Benke died on July 15, 1904 in New York. [Sources: Crosby, pp. 535, 562]
NN, Hymnary. Source: http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/b/e/n/benke_vh.htm
Victor H. Benke
M. Victor Staley
b. 1866 Author of "Be Thou My Stay" Staley, M. Victor. (near Omro, Wisconsin, 1866--?). Studied at Lawrence University, 1887-1892; University of Wisconsin (Madison), B.A., 1893; Yale University, Ph.D., ca.1895; admitted to bar, 1900. Practiced, Portland, Oregon. Teacher of Latin and Greek, Palo Alto, California; University of Washington, Seattle; Orchard Lake Military Academy and Louisiana State Normal School.
See: Gabriel, Charles H. (1916). Singers and Their Songs. Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company.
--Keith C. Clark, DNAH Archives
M. Victor Staley
