[A story sweet and wondrous] (Hall)

Composer: J. Lincoln Hall

Joseph Lincoln Hall, 1866-1930 Born: No­vem­ber 4, 1866, Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia. Died: No­vem­ber 29, 1930, at the home of his bro­ther Wal­ter in Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia. Buried: North­wood Cem­e­te­ry, Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia (an un­marked plot in the "Ivy" sec­tion of the cem­e­te­ry). Pseudonym: Mau­rice A. Clif­ton. Hall grad­u­at­ed with hon­ors from the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­van­ia; he lat­er re­ceived an hon­or­a­ry Doc­tor of Mu­sic de­gree from Har­ri­man Un­i­ver­si­ty. He wrote can­ta­tas, or­a­tor­i­os, choir an­thems, and hun­dreds of Gos­pel songs, and ed­it­ed sev­er­al hymn­als. He was ap­par­ent­ly an ex… Go to person page >