Introduction

Biography

Horace was the son of James Lin­coln and Ema­line King, and hus­band of Et­ta Lee Thur­mand (mar­ried Sep­tem­ber 4,1887).

He moved with his fa­mi­ly to Tex­as when he was se­ven years old. At age 10, he be­gan at­tend­ing a sing­ing school con­duct­ed by James M. Jolley of Mis­sis­sip­pi. In 1880, he taught his first sing­ing class in his old neigh­bor­hood school house. Lat­er that year, he at­tend­ed his first nor­mal mu­sic school, taught at Mount­ain Home (now Hol­land), Tex­as.

Lincoln had oth­er mu­sic­al train­ing under L. B. Shook (a for­mer stu­dent of Phil­ip Bliss) and John Mc­Pher­son of Il­li­nois. In 1898, he gra­du­at­ed from the Chi­ca­go Na­tion­al Col­lege of Mu­sic, and in 1906 took a post-grad­ua­te course un­der Ho­ra­tio Pal­mer.

Lincoln ev­en­tu­al­ly be­came pre­si­dent of the Song­land Mu­sic Com­pa­ny, and the World’s Nor­mal Mu­sic­al Col­lege.

Works

• Gospel Car­ols, 1885
• Harvest Bells No. 3, with Will­iam Penn (Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: John Church, 1887)
• Song-Land Mes­sen­ger Com­plete (Dal­las, Tex­as: H. N. Lin­coln, 1890, 1891 & 1892)
• Songland Me­lo­dies (Dal­las, Tex­as: Song­land Com­pa­ny, 1898)
• Song Re­viv­al, 1898
• Crowning Theme Nos. 1 and 2 Com­bined, 1900