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P. P. Bilhorn
1865 - 1936 Composer of "[Tho' torn and tossed by wind and wave]" in The Century Gospel Songs Pseudonyms: W. Ferris Britcher, Irene Durfee; C. Ferris Holden, P. H. Roblin (a anagram of his name)
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Peter Philip Bilhorn was born, in Mendota, IL. His father died in the Civil War 3 months before he was born. His early life was not easy. At age 8, he had to leave school to help support the family. At age 15, living in Chicago, he had a great singing voice and sang in German beer gardens there. At this time, he and his brother also formed the Eureka Wagon & Carriage Works in Chicago, IL. At 18 Peter became involved in gospel music, studying under George F. Root and George C. Stebbins. He traveled to the Dakotas and spent some time sharing the gospel with cowboys there. He traveled extensively with D. L. Moody, and was Billy Sunday's song leader on evangelistic endeavors. His evangelistic work took him into all the states of the Union, Great Britain, and other foreign countries. In London he conducted a 4000 voice choir in the Crystal Palace, and Queen Victoria invited him to sing in Buckinghm Palace. He wrote some 2000 gospel songs in his lifetime. He also invented a folding portable telescoping pump organ, weighing 16 lbs. It could be set up in about a minute. He used it at revivals in the late 19th century. He founded the Bilhorn Folding Organ Company in Chicago. IL, and his organ was so popular it was sold all over the world. He edited 10 hymnals and published 11 gospel songbooks. He died in Los Angeles, CA, in 1936.
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Charles Gould Beede
1853 - 1906 Author of "Peace, Be Still!" in The Century Gospel Songs Charles Gould Beede was born October 27, 1843 in Providence County, Rhode Island. He married his first wife in January 1870 and they had a son in November 1870. His first marriage later ended in divorce. He married Lillian Barker in 1897 in Iowa. She was 27 years old and he was 54 years old. They were both poets. His Soul Shadows and Reincarnated: a romance of the soul were published in 1908. Lillian Barker Beede's Through the Mists was published in 1910.
Dianne Shapiro from Find a Grave Memorial website (accessed 10/25/2020 and Annals of Iowa: a historical quarterly (Third Series, Vol. XI, No. 1, April 1913)
Charles Gould Beede
