Short Name: | William Backus Olmstead |
Full Name: | Olmstead, William Backus, 1862-1941 |
Birth Year: | 1862 |
Death Year: | 1941 |
William Backus Olmstead USA 1862-1941. He was born in Michigan. Musically inclined, he wrote a score: “A little while, O hands” for the piano. He wrote a handbook for Sunday school workers and a biography of the Rev Charles H Sage (his pioneering church work in MI and other states and formation of the Canadian church conference). He published three song books: “Light & life songs” (1904), “Voices of praise” (1909), and “Light & life songs #2” (1914). He also served on the commission (one of three editors) that produced the Free Methodist Hymnal (1910), published in Winona Lake, IN. He was living in Chicago in 1914. In 1921 he became Mission Secretary for the China Inland Mission of the Methodist Church. In 1923-24 he and his wife, Minnie, were engaged on a world-wide trip on behalf of the church, visiting hospitals, schools, leper colonies, and congregations across Japan, China, India, and southern Africa. He died in San Francisco, CA.
John Perry
Hymnals by William Backus Olmstead (5) | As | Publication Year |
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Light and Life Songs: adapted especially to sunday schools, prayer meetings and other social services | William B. Olmstead (Editor) | 1904 |
Light and Life Songs No. 2 | William B. Olmstead (Editor) | 1914 |
Light and Life Songs No. 3 | William B. Olmstead (Editor) | 1918 |
Light and Life Songs No. 4 | William B. Olmstead (Editor) | 1928 |
Voices of Praise: prepared with especial reference to the needs of the Sunday school | William B. Olmstead (Editor) | 1909 |