Born: May 7, 1844, Red­ford, Mi­chi­gan.

Died: Oc­to­ber 24, 1932, Ply­mouth, Mi­chi­gan.

Pseudonym: 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, pas­tor­ing 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.

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Lyrics

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