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W. S. B. Mathews

W. S. B. Mathews
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Short Name: W. S. B. Mathews
Full Name: Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smyth Babcock), 1837-1912
Birth Year: 1837
Death Year: 1912

Born: Circa May 1837, Loudon, New Hampshire.
Died: April 1, 1912, Denver, Colorado.
Buried: Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Colorado.

Mathews was educated in Boston, Massachusetts, and at Highland University in Illinois, and taught music at the Wesleyan Female College in Macon, Georgia. He later moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he played the organ at the Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church (1867-93), edited the Musical Independent (1869-71), was music critic for the Chicago Record Herald and Chicago Tribune (1877-87), and helped found the Groller Club in 1884. In 1891, started the monthly magazine Music. His works include:
How to Understand Music (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Theodore Presser Company, 1888)
A Hundred Years of Music in America (Chicago, Illinois: G.L. Howe, 1889)
A Popular History of the Art of Music (Chicago, Illinois: The "Music" Magazine Publishing Company, 1891)
Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of Music (Cincinnati, Ohio: John Church Company, 1896)
Music, Its Ideals and Methods (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:: Theodore Presser Company, 1897)
The Masters and Their Music (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Theodore Presser Company, 1898)

Lyrics--
Bearing the Cross for Me
Christ at Bethlehem
See the Savior This Way
To the Harvest Field Away

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