Rigdon M. McIntosh › Hymnals

Born: Ap­ril 3, 1836, Mau­ry Coun­ty, Ten­nes­see.
Died: Ju­ly 2, 1899, At­lan­ta, Georg­ia.
Buried: Ox­ford, Georg­ia.

Pseudonym: Emil­i­us La­roche.

McIntosh at­tend­ed Jack­son Coll­ege in Co­lum­bia, Ten­nes­see, and stu­died mu­sic un­der Asa Ev­er­ett. In 1875, he was ap­point­ed head of the Mu­sic De­part­ment at Van­der­bilt Un­i­ver­si­ty in Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see. In 1877, he joined the fa­cul­ty of Em­o­ry Coll­ege, Ox­ford, Georg­ia. In 1895, he left Em­o­ry Coll­ege to de­vote his time to the R. M. Mc­In­tosh Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny. He al­so served as mu­sic ed­it­or of the Meth­od­ist Epis­co­pal Church South Pub­lish­ing House for over 30 years. His works in­clude:

Good News, or Songs and Tunes for Sun­day Schools, Christ­ian As­so­ci­a­tions and Spe­cial Meet­ings (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Ol­iv­er Dit­son & Com­pa­ny, 1876)
New Life No. 2 (Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see: South­ern Meth­od­ist Publ­ish­ing House, 1886)
Songs of Ser­vice (At­lan­ta, Georg­ia: The R. M. Mc­In­tosh Co., 1896) (mu­sic ed­it­or)

Sources--
Hall, pp. 103-7
Hustad, pp. 285-6
Nutter, p. 461

Music--
At the Beau­ti­ful Gate
Beautiful Christ­mas
For Ma­ny, Ma­ny Years
Gathering Home
I Will Up­hold Thee
Kingdom Is Com­ing, The
Los Cer­ri­tos
McAnally
Not Far from the King­dom
On Jor­dan’s Stormy Banks I Stand
Once o’er Ju­dea’s Hills by Night
Story of the Cross
Tell It Again
Ten Vir­gins, The
Wise Vir­gins, The

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