Palmer Hartsough

1844-1932

Born: May 7, 1844, Redford, Michigan.

Died: October 24, 1932, Plymouth, Michigan.

Pseudonym: Uncle Frank.

Hartsough attended Kalamazoo College and Michigan State Normal. After working as a traveling singing teacher in Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, Hartsough opened a music studio in Rock Island, Illinois, around 1877. In 1893, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he joined the Fillmore Music Company. In Cincinnati, he acted as music director at the Bethel Mission and at the Ninth Street Baptist Church. Hartsough was ordained a Baptist minister in 1906, pastoring in Ontario, Michigan, for 13 years. He retired in 1927.

Hymns:

1. Are You Sowing the Seed?
2. I Am Resolved