B. F. White

Short Name: B. F. White
Full Name: White, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1800-1879
Birth Year: 1800
Death Year: 1879

Benjamin F. White (b. Spartanburg, SC, 1800; d. Atlanta, GA, 1879), was coeditor of The Sacred Harp (1844). He came from a family of fourteen children and was largely self-taught. Eventually White became a popular singing-school teacher and editor of the weekly Harris County newspaper.

Bert Polman


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