Person Results

Switch back to the old search page.Advanced Search

Showing 1 - 3 of 3Results Per Page: 10 20 50

R. M. McIntosh

1836 - 1889 Composer of "[The Sabbath morn is beaming]" in Good News Used Pseudonym: Robert M. McIntosh ========== Rigdon (Robert) McCoy McIntosh USA 1836-1899 Born at Maury County, TN, into a farming family, he attended Jackson College in Columbia, TN, graduating in 1854. He studied music under Asa Everett in Richmond, VA, and became a traveling singing school teacher. He also served briefly in the Civil War. He wrote several hymns during this period of his life. In 1860 he married Sarah McGlasson, and they had a daughter, Loulie Everett. In 1875 he was appointed head of the Vanderbilt University Music Department in Nashville, TN. In 1877 he joined the faculty of Emory College, Oxford, GA. In 1895 he left Emory College to devote his time to the R M McIntosh Publishing Company. He also served as music editor of the Methodist Episcopal Church South Publishing House for over 30 years. His song book publications include: “Good news” (1876), “Light & life” (1881), “Prayer & praise” (1883), “New life” (1879), “New life #2” (1886), and “Songs of service” (1896). He died in Atlanta, GA. John Perry

Sarah J. C. Whittlesey

1825 - 1896 Person Name: S. J. C. Whittlesey Author of "The Sabbath of the Soul" in Good News Sarah was born at Williamston, NC. She graduated from Laville Semitnary in Halifax Co., NC in 1841 and moved to Alexandria Virginia in 1848. She was a novelist and a poet. Her most noted work is Bertha, the Beauty, a Story of the southern REvolution, 1872, whichi s reportedly an autobiographical novel. She died in Alexandria, 16 Feb, 1896. Dianne Shapiro, from "Genealogy of the Whittelsey-Whittlesey family" by Charles Barney Whittelsey, Hartford, Conn., 1898