1844-1932

May 7, 1844, Red­ford, Mi­chi­gan.

Oc­to­ber 24, 1932, Ply­mouth, Mi­chi­gan.

Ri­ver­side Cem­e­te­ry, Ply­mouth, Mi­chi­gan.

Uncle Frank.

Son of Wells and Thank­ful Palm­er Har­tsough, Palm­er 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, and directed the mu­sic at a Bap­tist church there. 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, serv­ing in On­tar­io, Mi­chi­gan, from 1914 to 1927, when he retired. He then re­turned to Ply­mouth, Mi­chi­gan, where he lived the rest of his life. Un­i­ver­si­ty of Mis­sou­ri li­brar­i­an Hen­ry O. Sev­er­ance wrote an un­pub­lished bi­o­graphy of Hart­sough in 1937.

  1. All Safe to Land
  2. Are You Sow­ing the Seed?
  3. Be Not Afraid, but Speak
  4. Beautiful Ri­ver of Life
  5. Eye Hath Not Seen
  6. God Bless Our Na­tive Land
  7. Great Joy in That Ci­ty
  8. He Is Com­ing
  9. I Am Re­solved
  10. I Be­lieve in God
  11. In Him We Live
  12. Jesus Is Call­ing
  13. Just as Thou Wilt
  14. Leaving It All with Him
  15. Love and Help Each Other
  16. Resurrection Day, The
  17. Speed Away
  18. Sweet Gifts of Love
  19. Therefore Watch
  20. Trumpet Call of God, The
  21. Wait up­on God
  22. We’ll Be There
  23. When the Tide of God’s Mer­cy Comes In
  24. Where Je­sus Calls
  25. Word of His Grace, The
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