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W. A. Ogden
1841 - 1897 Person Name: William A. Ogden Author of "Sabbath Bells" William Augustine Ogden USA 1841-1897. Born at Franklin County, OH, his family moved to IN when he was age six. He studied music in local singing schools at age 8, and by age 10 could read church music fairly well. Later, he could write out a melody by hearing it sung or played. He enlisted in the American Civil War in the 30th IN Volunteer Infantry. During the war he organized a male choir which became well known throughout the Army of the Cumberland. After the war, he returned home, resumed music study, and taught school. He married Jennie V Headington, and they had two children: Lowell and Marian. He worked for the Iowa Normal School, Toledo Public School System. Among his teachers: Lowell Mason, Thomas Hastings, E E Baily and B F Baker, president of the Boston Music School. He wrote many hymns, both lyrics and/or music. He later issued his first song book, “The silver song” (1870). It became quite popular, selling 500,000 copies. He went on to publish other song books. Ogden also taught music at many schools in the U S and Canada. In 1887 he became superintendent of music in the public schools of Toledo, OH. His works include: “New silver songs for Sunday school” (1872), “Crown of life” (1875), “Notes of victory” (1885), “The way of life” (1886), “Gathering jewels” (1886). He was known as a very enthusiastic person in his work and a very congenial one as well. He died at Toledo, OH.
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Cornelius T. Dondore
1842 - 1922 Person Name: C. T. Dondore Composer of "[All the air is hushed and holy]" in Gathered Jewels Cornelius T. Dondore was born 18 July 1842 in Pennsylvania to a family of Alsatian extraction that had settled in Berks County during the Colonial era. Little has been discovered about his early life, but popular songs and piano works by C. T. Dondore appeared in advertisements in Buffalo, N.Y. newspapers as early as 1867, and in various midwestern cities over the next few years. Dondore conducted a choral concert in Findlay, Ohio on 21 March 1871. By 1872 he was dealing in pianos and organs from a store at 157 Summit Street in Toledo, Ohio, but by 1879 had moved to Findlay, Ohio where he lived off investments in real estate. Dondore suffered from unspecified ill health, and by 1890 had relocated to San Diego, California where he pursued farming. He died there 27 May 1922.
Sources:
FamilySearch, "The Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 3 March 2025), Cornelius T. Dondore (MRZS-MNN), Details.
Advertisements, Buffalo Daily Republic, 13 August 1867, page 3. Newspapers.com.
Advertisements, The Weekly Gazette (Kansas City), 13 March 1869, page 2. Newspapers.com.
"Grand Concert!", The Hancock Courier (Findlay, OH), 16 March 1871, page 2. Newspapers.com.
"Local business notices", The Tiffin Tribune (Tiffin, OH), 18 January 1872, page 3. Newspapers.com
Advertisement for C. T. Dondore, The Fremont Weekly Journal (Fremont, OH), 8 May 1874, page 1. Newspapers.com.
"Local", The Worthington Advance (Worthington, MN), 17 May 1877, page 3. Newspapers.com
Brennan, J. Fletcher. "Rawson, Bass," A Biographical Cyclopaedia and Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Men (Cincinnati: John C. Yorston, 1879), page 345-346.
--David Russell Hamrick
Cornelius T. Dondore
