Middletowil, Conn

1861; a. Boston, July 21, 1904. Early showed talent for music and was a chorister in St. Stephen's P. E. Church, Providence, P. I.; studied first with local teachers, and later in Boston, where he commenced his career as a church singer in the Brook line Baptist Church. When the male quartet of the Buggies St. Baptist church was organized in 1879 ne was selected as solo tenor and director of the music of the church; during the twenty-two years of its existence the quartet was probably the most popular organization of its kind in the U. S. It was disbanded in 1901, after which he was succe ively tenor at the King’s Chapel and 2d Universalist Church. Organized and directed the Johnson Quintet Club, a succe ful concert club. During his profe ional career he sang with the leading choral societies of New England. His best known composition is the sacred song Face to Pace.