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Albert Durrant Watson
1859 - 1926 Person Name: Dr. A. D. Watson, 1859- Topics: Canada; Canada; The Church and the Kingdom of God National Life; Native Land Prayer for ; Native Land Love for ; National Prayer; Prayer For Our Country; Loyalty To Christ Author of "Lord of the lands, beneath Thy bending skies" in Methodist Hymn and Tune Book Watson, Albert Durrant. (Dixie, Ontario, January 8, 1859--May 3, 1926, Toronto, Ont.). Methodist. Victoria University, M.D., C.M., 1883; Edinburgh, P.R.C.P., 1883. While practising medicine in Toronto, he published nine books of prose and verse, culminating in Poetical Works (1924), and served on the compilation committee of the 1917, Methodist Hymn and Tune Book. For it, he wrote "Lord of the lands" to fit Calixa Lavallee's tune for "O Canada", since no English version of its French words had yet to gain general acceptance, and its Quebec origin worked against its use in Protestant churches. His words were widely used on patriotic occasions for the next fifty years, but only in church services, never in state celebrations.
--Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives
Albert Durrant Watson
James Christopher Marks
1863 - 1946 Person Name: J. Christopher Marks Topics: Afflictions Comfort under; Afflictions Promises for; Angels; Assurance Declared; Assurance Enjoyed; Cares; Christians Christ the Life of; Christians Conquerors; Christians Graces of; Covenant Promises; Deliverance From Sickness; Etermal Life; Faith Confession of; God Our Guardian; God Hearer of Prayer; God Love and Mercy; God Our Refuge; Gospel Privileges of; Heaven; Praise for temporal blessings; Prayer Importunity in ; Prayer Promise to; Preservation; Protection Only from God; Protection Unceasing; The Righteous Honor and Safety of; Royalty of Christ Providential; Safety Assured; Salvation Promised; Trust in God Expression of Composer of "MARTHINA" in The Psalter Born: 1863, Cork, Ireland.
Died: October 13, 1946, New York City.
Marks’ father (who had the same name) was organist and choir master at the Cork Cathedral for 43 years. James studied music under his father; his uncle, T. Osborne Marks, organist of Armagh Cathedral; and with Professor R. P. Stewart of Trinity College, Dublin. He received vocal training from Sims Reeves, whose special accompanist he was during Reeves’ final farewell tour in Ireland. Marks was organist and choir master at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Cork (1881-1902). In 1902, he emigrated to America and became the organist at St. Andrew’s Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1904, he became organist and choir director at the Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York, where he served until 1929.
Marks received a Doctor of Music degree from New York University in 1908, served as president of the National Association of Organists in 1912 and 1913, and was an Associate of the American Guild of Organists.
He wrote the cantata Victory Divine, the anthem The Day Is Past and Over (1888), and many other pieces.
Sources:
Benjamin, pp. 100-01
New York Times, October 15, 1946
http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/r/k/marks_jc.htm
James Christopher Marks
W.S. Dingman
1858 - 1947 Person Name: W. S. Dingman, 1858- Topics: Canada; Canada; The Church and the Kingdom of God National Life; Native Land Prayer for ; Native Land Love for ; National Prayer; Prayer For Our Country; Loyalty To Christ Harmony edited of "O CANADA" in Methodist Hymn and Tune Book Born: May 9, 1858.
Absalom Dingman, a newspaper publisher from Strathroy and a United Empire Loyalist who had migrated to Canada from an early Dutch settlement along the Hudson River in New York State, came to Stratford with his family and purchased the Herald, a weekly with a steadily increasing readership. Three of his sons joined him at the paper with the eldest, William Smith, who in addition to his newspaper experience in Strathroy, had spent a year as managing editor at the Port Arthur Daily Sentinel becoming Co-publisher, and hence began what is described by Adelaide Leitch in her history of Stratford, Floodtides of Fortune, as a newspaper dynasty. It would last for 113 years.
William Smith Dingman and Margaret (Maggie) Elizabeth McDonough were married in Strathroy March 13, 1889 with her father, the Rev. William McDonough, a Methodist clergyman, performing the ceremony. They immediately moved into 59 Grant Street where their first child, a daughter, Wilhelmine Margaret was born. William and Maggie’s first son, George McDonough, served in World War 1 and afterwards continued in the family tradition as an advertising manager in St Thomas.
In 1890 William moved the Herald into a new building, designed by architect Joseph Kilburn, on the south side of Market Square where it would remain until the merger with the Beacon in 1923. He became active in municipal life serving on the Board of the Collegiate Institute, as an alderman on the city council and finally as mayor 1909-10. It was during his term as mayor that he played a key role in bringing water-powered hydro service to Stratford. His advocacy and support for Sir Adam Beck’s Niagara Power project culminated in a 1910 Christmas Eve ceremony at which the first Niagara powered electric lights were switched on to illuminate Stratford’s streets.
In 1899 he was elected President of the Canadian Press Association, a non profit organization created in 1859 to improve relations among newspaper publishers, proprietors and editors and strengthen the press against the divisive effect of political interference.
After more than 30 years in the newspaper business the Ontario government called on him in 1915 to serve as Vice Chairman of the newly established Ontario Board of License (Liquor) Commissioners. This position would soon involve him in the administration of the Ontario Temperance Act which came into effect in 1917. He and Maggie moved to Toronto where they spent the rest of their lives. William Smith Dingman died in 1947 at age 89 and is buried with Maggie in Mount Pleasant Cemetery there.
--www.stratford-perthcountybranchaco.ca/
W.S. Dingman
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